On the Shelf for August 2020 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 169 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.

In this episode we talk about:

The podcast is four years old!
Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Armenian astrology text (British Library Ms. Or. 6471)
- Kuefler, Mathew (ed). 2007. The History of Sexuality Sourcebook. Broadview Press, Ontario. ISBN 978-1-55111-738-6
- Engelstein, Laura. 1990. "Lesbian Vignettes: A Russian Triptych from the 1890s" in Signs vol. 15, no. 4 813-831.
- Robertson, Jennifer. 1999. "Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan" in Signs vol. 25, no. 1 1-35.
- Hatem, Mervat. 1986. "The Politics of Sexuality and Gender in Segregated Patriarchal Systems: The Case of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Egypt" in Feminist Studies vol. 12, no. 2 250-274.
- Phillips, Kim M. & Barry Reay. 2011. Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-7456-2522-5
- TBD
This month we have a theme focusing on the mythological figure of Artemis/Diana:
- Reprise: Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation
- Book Appreciation: Stories involving Artemis/Diana
- Asexual Artemis/Lesbian Diana: Artificial Scarcity and Representation
Original Fiction: “Your Fingers Like Pen and Ink” by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
New and forthcoming fiction
Call for submissions for the 2021 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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