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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
On the Shelf for December 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 135 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- A look back at what the podcast has accomplished this year
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Call for submissions for the Silk and Steel anthology (not affiliated with this podcast) See here for details.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich
- Constructing Medieval Sexuality edited by Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz
- Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Post-Modern by Carolyn Dinshaw
- “The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England” by Valerie Traub
- "The Reformulation of Sexual Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century England" by Tim Hitchcock
- "The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and Its General Sexual Consequences” by Randolph Trumbach
- Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell
- December Schedule
- Reprise show: Highwaywomen
- Essay: Lesbian Vikings?
- Bonus show: Heather’s End-of-year Round-up
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Cinderella and the Lady by K.T. Grant
- O Venus ! Morior ! (Ô Vénus ! Je meurs !) by Le Jardin de Sappho (in French)
- The Shona Jackson Trilogy (Shona, Meet Me at 10, The Beach House) by Vicky Jones & Claire Hackney
- Donning the Beard by EA Kafkalas
- The Little Wife: A gothic Victorian tale of grief, desire and revenge by Delphine Woods
- The Wonderful by Saksia Sarginson
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
The Mermaid by Kathleen Jowitt
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 134 with Heather Rose Jones
The fourth and final story in our 2019 Fiction Series
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Links to Kathleen Jowitt Online
- Website: kathleenjowitt.com
- Twitter: @KathleenJowitt
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Class and Models of Lesbian Desire
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 133 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
- The place of class in archetypes of lesbianism and same-sex desire
- How class affects perceptions of sexuality
- Class and money: who has it, what do then need to do to keep it?
- Class and family responsibility: how do different groups balance individualism and group identity?
- How does class influence marriage options, and the ability to reject them?
- How does class affect the potential for economic independence?
- Working through the dynamics of class in some popular lesbian historical archetypes
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 132 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
- Books mentioned
- The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
- The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
- A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell
- The Hounds of Justice by Claire O’Dell
- A Jewel-Bright Sea by Claire O’Dell
- Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts added when available.)
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Interview with Heather Rose Jones
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 131 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- What are the advantages to setting stories in an invented country like Alpennia?
- The roots of Heather’s love for language and history
- Themes and tropes in the Alpennia books
- Why weren’t the books written as romances?
- Complex intersections of gender and sexuality in the books
- Queer coming of age in the 19th century
- What books inspired the Alpennia series?
- Why a laundry maid as a protagonist? Writing precarious lives.
- Touch-points for writing historic disasters and sowing seeds of revolution
- Why write a stand-alone book in the middle of a series?
- Why write in first versus third person?
- Finding the people of color in Alpennia
- Planting story-seeds to harvest in later books
- What’s next for the Alpennia series?
- Giving characters failure modes
- What else does Heather want to write?
- Books mentioned
A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts added when available.)
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
On the Shelf for November 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 130 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Fiction series: “The Mermaid” by Kathleen Jowitt
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Cadden, Joan. 1993. Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-48378-6
- Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” in Signs 5: 631-60.
- Lochrie, Karma, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz. 1997. Constructing Medieval Sexuality. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. ISBN 0-8166-2829-7
- Dinshaw, Carolyn. 1999. Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
- Announcing this month’s author guest: Heather Rose Jones
- New and forthcoming fiction
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
The Goblin Market (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 129 with Heather Rose Jones
This is an analysis and recitation of the poem “The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, with special attention to its homoerotic themes.
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 128
This episode takes a poetic tour through expressions of, and reactions to, love between women in 16th and 17th century Europe.
In this episode we talk about:
- Poems about the pangs of love
- Men jealous of women’s love for each other
- Men appropriating lesbian imagery
- Poems of satire and vituperation
- The triumph of love
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Medieval Love Poetry (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 127 with Heather Rose Jones
This episode looks at examples of courtly love--both in poetry and in prose--expressed between two women, or by two female characters.
In this episode we talk about:
- The context and conventions of the “courtly love” genre
- The problems of relating the sentiments expressed in courtly love literature to everyday lives and experiences
- Scholarly blind spots when interpreting same-sex expressions of courtly love
- Love, desire, and friendship between women in the 13th century French story L’Escoufle
- The 13th century troubariz (female troubador) Bieiris de Romans and the love poem she wrote to a woman named Maria
- A passionate poem of love and longing written by one anonymous 12th century German woman to another
Books mentioned
- The full text of Na Maria by Bieris de Romans can be found in: Bogin, Meg. 1976. The Women Troubadours. Paddington Press, Ltd., New York. ISBN 0-8467-0113-8
- The full text of the Tegernsee MS poem can be found in: Matter, E. Ann. 1989. “My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity” in Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, eds. Judith Plaskow & Carol P. Christ. Harper & Row, San Francisco.
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
On the Shelf for October 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 126 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- My recording vacation this month and why you’re getting three reprises of poetry shows
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Amtower, Laurel and Dorothea Kehler, eds. 2003. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe. ISBN 0-06698-306-6
- Laqueur, Thomas. 1990. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-674-54349-1
- Rich, Adrienne. 1980. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Signs vol 5, no. 4, pp. 631-60 at 650.
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)