On the Shelf for July 2018 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 61

2020-09-26

On the Shelf for July 2018 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 61 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing. In this episode we talk about: Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blogThe Zimmern Chronicle Brantôme’s Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies “From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian” by MIhangel Morgan, queer Welsh literature Primary source material for the study of 17th century English women Emma Donoghue looks at the intersection of the ...

On the Shelf for July 2018 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 61 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.

In this episode we talk about:

Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- The Zimmern Chronicle
- Brantôme’s Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
- “From Huw Arwystli to Siôn Eirian” by MIhangel Morgan, queer Welsh literature
- Primary source material for the study of 17th century English women
- Emma Donoghue looks at the intersection of the motifs of hermaphrodite and lesbian in 17-18th century England
- Clorinda Donato considers John Cleland’s translation of the life of Catherine VIzzani as a satirical attack on Mary Wortley Montagu
- Jacqueline Holler considers the trial confessions of a 16th c Mexican holy woman, heretic, and sexual outlaw
- Susan Lanser discusses the political implications of women’s same-sex relationships in 17th century England
- Tim Hitchcock looks at homosexual subcultures in 18th century England
Announcing this month’s author guest, Justine Saracen
New and forthcoming fiction
- J B Marsden The Travels of Charlie (Sapphire Books)
- Kelly Wacker Holding Their Place (Bold Strokes Books)
- Rebecca Harwell Shadow of the Phoenix (Bold Strokes Books)
- Natalie Debrabandere Thyra's Promise (self-published)
- Claire O’Dell A Study in Honor (Harper Collins)
Ask Sappho: Sheena asks, "Were there 'drag king' performances before the 20th century?"
- Rowson 2003 Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad
- Westphal-Wihl 1989 “The Ladies’ Tournament: Marriage, Sex, and Honor in Thirteenth-Century Germany”
- Knighton 1995 Knighton’s Chronicle 1337-1396
- Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse
- Hannah Snell
- Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke”
- Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 19d - Charlotte Cushman
- Sears, Clare. 2015. Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.