When I'm in the middle of a run of covering full-sized books, I sometimes forget how densely packed with interesting analysis articles can be. There's also a bit more feeling of accomplishment when I get to increment the numbers of publications every week, rather than once a month or so! It's been a while since I did an update on the scope of the project. This is item #339, which means I've covered more than a third of the publications in my master database.
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The contracts are all in, so it's time to announce the full 2022 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast fiction line-up!
Our January story, already broadcast, was:
- "Palio" by Gwen Katz - horseracing politics and flirtation in 17th century Siena
The four stories we just bought (in no particular order, as the schedule isn't set yet) are:
One of the long-term "resource" projects that I'm gradually collecting data for is a catalog of romantic, erotic, and sexual behaviors indexed to the cultures and eras when they were popular, and placed in their social context. Think about the simple kiss. What did kissing mean in a given culture? Who kissed whom? In what context? What was communicated between the people who kissed? How as that kiss interpreted by those who witnessed it? If you're writing a sapphic historical romance, under what circumstances might ytour characters kiss? Will their first kiss be erotic or social?
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 222 - On the Shelf for February 2022 - Transcript
(Originally aired 2022/02/05 - listen here)
Welcome to On the Shelf for February, 2022.
Submissions are now closed for the 2022 podcast fiction series. Thank you to everyone who entrusted us with your stories. Reading and making choices should happen within the next week. So excited to see what the possibilities are! (I never read submissions as they come in because I worry that it might bias my opinions.)
This is just a pointer to the version of this paper that I blogged.
This article tackles an interesting contradiction in Roman sexual discourse--or perhaps in scholarly discourse around Roman sexuality: how do you integrate the theoretical concepts of "active" and "passive" within sexual activity with the language used to talk about those acts and the people who engage in them? I tend to think that apparent contradictions--rather than needing to be resolved via an additional layer of theory--sometimes simply illustrate the contradictory nature of life and society.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 221 – Palio by Gwen C. Katz - transcript
(Originally aired 2022/01/29 - listen here)
An interesting article that tackles the association of Sappho, Lesbos, and female homosexuality from a different angle.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 220 – John Lyly’s Gallathea - transcript
(Originally aired 2022/01/16 - listen here)
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