The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 346 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries.

How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion

Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option

Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple

The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice

Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available

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

Female husbands

A transcript of this podcast is available here.

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So You’re Writing a Sapphic Historical Romance: Questions to Consider (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 345 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about the questions to ask about sapphic relationships and how they are perceived in your story’s setting:

How easy is it to live outside of the heterosexual marriage paradigm?

What are the economic, legal, and religious constraints on your characters?

What is the ordinary “background noise” of non-sexual displays of affection?

How does the culture of the setting understand privacy and how does that affect your characters’ behavior?

What are the realities and perceptions around sex between women in this setting?

How does the culture of the setting understand gender and sexuality?

How are female couples depicted in popular culture of the time?

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

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Twitter: @LesbianMotif

Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server

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Email: Heather Rose Jones

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When Did We Become Lesbians? (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 344 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:

The history of words for women who loved women throughout recorded European history.

What words were used?

Where did they come from?

What shades of meaning did they have?

How did those meanings change over time?

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

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Twitter: @LesbianMotif

Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server

The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

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Email: Heather Rose Jones

Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop

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Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 343 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents Salt for the Unmarried by Khayelihle Benghu, narrated 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

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Twitter: @LesbianMotif

Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server

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Email: Heather Rose Jones

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A Guide to the Sapphic Regency
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 342 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:

Demographics and economics affecting f/f couples

Legal and religious considerations

Friendship and romance

Affection and sex

The language of lesbianism

Models of gender and sexuality

Bibliography
18th Century Precursors
Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. 1999. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7

Bennett, Betty T. 1991. Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-4984-5

Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. 2010. Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4

Bodek, Evelyn Gordon. 1976. "Salonières and Bluestockings: Educated Obsolescence and Germinating Feminism" in Feminist Studies vol 3 no. 3/4 185-199.

Clark, Anna. 1996. "Anne Lister's construction of lesbian identity", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7(1), pp. 23-50.

Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4

Dugaw, Dianne. 1989. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-16916-2

Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6

Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/. (Accessed 2014/09/13)

Hitchcock, Tim. 1997. English Sexualities, 1700-1800. St. Martin’s Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-16573-0

Rizzo, Betty. 1994. Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3218-5

19th Century Sources
Binhammer, Katherine. 1996. “The Sex Panic of the 1790s” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 6, no. 3: 409-34.

Jennings, Rebecca. 2007. A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500. Greenwood World Publishing, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-84645-007-5

Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0

Lasser, Carol. 1988. "'Let Us Be Sisters Forever': The Sororal Model of Nineteenth-Century Female Friendship" in Signs vol. 14, no. 1 158-181.

Moore, Lisa. 1992. "'Something More Tender Still than Friendship': Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England" in Feminist Studies vol. 18, no. 3 499-520.

Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/nineteen.htm (Accessed 2014/09/13)

Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3

Whitbread, Helena ed.  1992.  I Know My Own Heart:  The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840.  New York University Press, New York.  ISBN 0-8147-9249-9

Whitbread, Helena ed.  1992.  No Priest But Love.  NY Univ Press, New York.  ISBN  0-8147-5077-X

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

Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop

Bluesky: @heatherrosejones

Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)