Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 321 – Our F/Favorite Tropes Part 18: Mutually Oblivious - transcript
(Originally aired 2025/08/16 - listen here)
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This article feels a bit oddly structured, as if three topics have been picked out of a hat and then a thesis was constructed to connect them. But it adds another angle on the topic of "how things changed" around 1900.
This seemed like an appropriate pairing for yesterday's article, although I feel like the topic has been covered to death in previous articles I've blogged.
In the 16th century, a handful of (male) French anatomists "discovered" the clitoris. And then things get really strange.
There are some historians whose field of interest overlaps the focus of the Project very solidly. Susan Lanser is one of them. I have 13 publications under her name in my database and have now blogged 10 of them. I have another in my files, but two are yet to be tracked down. And I should probably hunt down her full bibliography and see what else I haven't stumbled across yet.
This article was cross-referenced in another of Susan Lanser's articles I blogged recently, so I took that as a cue to move it up in the queue. I'll follow it with yet another Lanser take on the long 18th century.
Happy Big Round Number to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project!
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 320 - On the Shelf for August 2025 - Transcript
(Originally aired 2025/08/03 - listen here)
Welcome to On the Shelf for August 2025.
I have a busy month or so coming up. In about a week I’ll be heading off to the World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle. Then a couple weeks after that, I’m headed off to New Zealand for my official, if belated, retirement celebration trip.
A look at female relations within Bluestocking circles and what sorts of evidence exist that some relations were queerer than others.
I've blogged several articles on sapphic aspects of Bluestocking culture over the years. Since I was blogging a different article in this special issue on Bluestockings, I figured I'd include this general introduction to their history as well. (I confess that I have something of a "thing" for brainy women in women-centered historic contexts.)
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