On the Shelf March 2018
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 20a
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about
The stories chosen for the new audio fiction episodes
"Peaceweaver" by Jennifer Nestojko
"At the Mouth" by Gurmika Mann
"Inscribed" by V.M. Agab
"One Night in Saint Martin" by Catherine Lundoff
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Conner, Randy P. 1997. “Les Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Premodern France” in Queerly Phrased: Language Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia & Kira Hall. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
Bonnet, Marie-Jo. 1997. “Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love” in Queerly Phrased: Language Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia & Kira Hall. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
Watt, Diane. 1997. “Read My Lips: Clipping and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century” in Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510471-4
Merrill, Lisa. 2000. When Romeo was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and her Circle of Female Spectators. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. ISBN 978-0-472-08749-5
Leach, Joseph. 1970. Bright Particular Star: The Life and Times of Charlotte Cushman. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Summerscale, Kate. 1997. The Queen of Whale Cay. Viking, New York. ISBN 0-670-88018-3
Gonda, Caroline. 2006. “Lesbian Narrative in the Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu” in British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 29, no. 2: 191-200.
Straub, Kristina. 1991. “The Guilty Pleasures of Female Theatrical Cross-Dressing and the Autobiography of Charlotte Charke.” in Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, ed. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub. New York: Routledge. pp. 142-66
Putter, Ad. 1997. “Transvestite Knights in Medieval Life and History” in Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome & Bonnie Wheeler (eds), Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Garland, New York. pp. 279-302
Announcing this month’s author guest, Elizabeth Bear
New and forthcoming lesbian historical fiction titles
Stone Mad by Elizabeth Bear
The Northwoods by Jane Hoppen
Free to Love by Ali Spooner and Annette Mori
Undiscovered Country: A Novel Inspired by the Lives of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok by Kelly O’Connor McNees
Ask Sappho: A special interview with composer and artist Phoebe Legere about her new one-woman musical about lesbian celebrity and speedboat racer Marion “Joe” Carstairs
Speed Queen: The Joe Carstairs Story - A musical by Phoebe Legere, playing March 7-24 at the Dixon Place Theater in New York City
Special discount code for our podcast listeners, get $5 off with the code “Speedqueen” when you order tickets
Phoebe Legere’s YouTube video with a brief into to Joe Carstairs (language NSFW)
More info
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