September 21, 2024

Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14b: Actresses and the Stage - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 296

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Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 14b: Actresses and the Stage

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 296 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about:

Actresses as sexual outlaws

Specific actresses known to have had same-sex romances

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Cheek, Pamela. 1998. "The 'Mémoires secrets' and the Actress: Tribadism, Performance, and Property", in Jeremy D. Popkin and Bernadette Fort (eds), The "Mémoires secrets" and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation.

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Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4

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