The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

By Heather Rose Jones

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.... more

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October 11, 2020Class and Models of Lesbian Desire - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 133
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)
...more
19min
October 11, 2020Book Appreciation with Heather Rose Jones - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 132
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)
...more
16min
October 11, 2020Interview with Heather Rose Jones - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 131
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
Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones
Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones
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)
...more
58min
October 11, 2020On the Shelf for November 2019 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 130
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
The Hidden Room by C.S. Joseph & Kathleen Greyson
Wanted by Lyzzy Burns
Heart of Sherwood by Edale Lane
Her Particular Friend by J.L. Merrow
Trafalgar & Boone Against the Forty Elephants by Geonn Cannon
A Transcontinental Affair by Jodi Daynard
Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones
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)
...more
14min
October 10, 2020The Goblin Market (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 129
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)
...more
37min
October 10, 2020Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 128
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
“To Mrs M Awbrye” by Katherine Philips
“A Song” by Aphra Behn, see also the podcast on Behn
“Love and Friendship: A Pastoral” by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
“On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play-fellow” by Jane Barker
Men jealous of women’s love for each other
“Elegy for a Lady Enamoured of Another Lady” by Pontus de Tyard
“On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies” by Edmund Waller
“Two Beauties, Tender Lovers” by Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin
Men appropriating lesbian imagery
“Sappho to Philaenis” by John Donne
“To Mr. J.D. (T.W.)” by Thomas Woodward
Poems of satire and vituperation
“Epigram on Cecilia Bulstrode” by Ben Johnson
“Tribades or Lesbia” by François de Maynard
“Women’s Complaint to Venus” and “Venus’s Reply” by anonymous
The triumph of love
Maitland Quarto MS Poem 49
“My Divine Lysi” by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
“On a Lady Named Beloved” by Anne de Rohan-Chabot
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)
...more
51min
October 10, 2020Medieval Love Poetry (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 127
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:
L’Escoufle
Na Maria (Bieiris de Romans)
Tegernsee ms
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)
...more
15min
October 10, 2020On the Shelf for October 2019 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 126
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
Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand
House of Bliss by T. T. Thomas
Flying Aces: A 1920s Drama by Shiralyn Lee
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)
...more
9min
October 09, 2020How to Be a Feminist in History - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 125
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
Excerpts from: Olympe de Gouges: English Translations of the Original French Texts
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)
...more
30min
October 09, 2020Book Appreciation with Olivia Waite - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 124
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
The Ladies’ Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
Proper English by KJ Charles
Spring Flowering by Farah Mendlesohn
A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
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
...more
12min

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