(Un)Conventional Women - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 38

2020-09-20

(Un)Conventional Women The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 38 A discussion of the long and tangled history of the historic fact and literary motif of lesbians in convents. In this episode we talk about: A brief history of Christian attitudes toward sex and Western beliefs about women’s sexuality Convent regulations that address women’s romantic and sexual bonds Case histories of sexual activity between nuns How the Reformation changed the attitude toward convents in Protestant societies The lesbian nun in pornography The lesbian nun as rel...

(Un)Conventional Women The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 38

A discussion of the long and tangled history of the historic fact and literary motif of lesbians in convents.

In this episode we talk about:

A brief history of Christian attitudes toward sex and Western beliefs about women’s sexuality
Convent regulations that address women’s romantic and sexual bonds
Case histories of sexual activity between nuns
How the Reformation changed the attitude toward convents in Protestant societies
The lesbian nun in pornography
The lesbian nun as religious polemic
The lesbian nun in modern society

This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: