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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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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)
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
How to Be a Feminist in History
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 125 with Heather Rose Jones
So you want your historic character to be a feminist. What does that mean? How early can we find women expressing opinions about gender equality and what did they think it looked like? What would your historic feminist’s blind spots be? What arguments and evidence would she bring to the table?
In this episode we talk about:
- Christine de Pisan
- Excerpts from: Christine de Pizan (trans by Earl Jeffrey Richards). 1982. The Book of the City of Ladies. Persea Books, New York.
- Moderata Fonte (Modesta di Pozzo)
- Excerpts from: Fonte, Moderata (trans by Virginia Cox). 2018. The Merits of Women (Wherein is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- Marie de Gournay
- Excerpt from: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Olympe de Gouges
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Excerpts from: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Project Gutenberg)
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)
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Book Appreciation with Olivia Waite
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 124 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured author will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
In this episode we talk about:
- 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)
Links to Olivia Waite Online
- Website: oliviawaite.com
- Twitter: @O_Waite
- Instagram: o_wow_waite