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The Lesbian Historic Motif PodcastLesbians and Sex Work - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 309Lesbians and Sex Work
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 309 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
Four motifs that connect women loving women and sex work in historic sources
Sources used
Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25.
Beynon, John C. 2010. “Unaccountable Women” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
Blackmore, Josiah. 1999. “The Poets of Sodom” in Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Mid...2025-03-2419 minThe Lesbian Historic Motif PodcastThe Dildo Episode - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 278The Dildo Episode
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 278 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:
The cultural dynamics of dildo use
A history of dildos in western culture
The social and legal consequences of dildo use
Terminology and materials of construction
Sources usedArvas, Abdulhamit. 2014. “From the Pervert, Back to the Beloved: Homosexuality and Ottoman Literary History, 11453-1923” in The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature ed. E.L. McCallum & Mikko Tuhkanen. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-03521-8
Auanger, Lisa. “Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoero...2024-01-2035 minThe Lesbian Historic Motif PodcastIphis and Ianthe - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 142Iphis and Ianthe
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 142 with Heather Rose Jones
Tracing same-sex and transgender themes in Ovid’s Classical Roman tale of forbidden love across the ages.
In this episode we talk about:
Who was Ovid and what type of story was the Metamorphoses?
The basic plot of the story and the motif of inappropriate love objects
Gender identity and sexuality in Iphis and Ianthe
Medieval transmission and the purpose of the “moralized Ovid”
The Renaissance translations return to Ovid’s original
Adapting Iphis in Yde and Olive and Gallathea
Iphis and Ianthe a...2020-10-1338 minThe Lesbian Historic Motif PodcastDeath did not them Depart - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 33Death did not them Depart
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 33
An examination of joint grave memorials for pairs of unrelated women that use the symbolism of marriage.
In this episode we talk about:
Classical Greek sculptural monuments from 5th c. BCE Athens
A Classical Roman memorial in which two women are shown clasping right hands, in a gesture typically indicating marriage
The unusual joint memorial brass of Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge from the 15th century in East Sussex
The 17th century grave memorial of Mary Barber of Suffolk, which gave equal prominence to...2020-09-1919 min
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lecturesClassics and Social JusticeAn APGRD public lecture in October 2017: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) tells us about her work bringing Classics into prisons.2019-03-201h 25