John Jacobson, freelance editor at Carina Press, joins me to trouble the binaries as we unpack a problematic favorite trope: women in pants in historical romance novels.

Show Notes:

Guest: John Jacobson

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Notes:

• Johanna Lindsey - Gentle Rogue
• Amanda Bynes in She's The Man (2005 film)
• Judith Butler
• Virginia Henley - Seduced
• Susan Faludi's book: Backlash
• Disclosure (Netflix Documentary)
• Hélène Cixous
• Mallory Jagodzinski - On Bustles and Breeches: Cross Dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology.
• "You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us": Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance by Jodi McAlister in the Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Recent projects as editor:

• Ella Stainton - Best Laid Plaids
• The Immortal City by May Peterson

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