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On the Shelf for April 2019 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 101 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Articles on 19th c women
  • Lesbian-like categories in Arabic literature
  • 12th c European gender categories
  • Commentaries on Dinshaw’s Getting Medieval
  • Accusations of sodomy within the church
  • Gender-crossing in medieval French romances
• Book Shopping for the blog
  • A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969, edited by Noam Sienna
  • Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918
• This month’s author guest is Zen Cho (originally announced as Molly Tanzer who will appear next month)
• This month’s essay topic is: Policing Gender and Sexuality
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • The Huntress by Kate Quinn (William Morrow Paperbacks)
  • Sleight of Hand by Ilse V Rensburg aka Jason Hes (Sera Blue)
  • Robber Girl by S. T. Gibson (self-published)
  • A Vengeance of Spies: A WW2 Novella by Manda Scott (self-published)
  • Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan (self-published)
  • Liliana by Diana Robbins (self-published)
  • Die Frau des Zuckerhändlers by Nathalie C. Kutscher (Telegonos-Publishing)
  • No Man's Chattel by Lee Swanson (self-published)
  • *S h e r l o c k i a n* Desdemona Valentina - A Femme Fatale Mystery - 1 (Desdemona Valentina Mysteries) by S.L. Freake (self-published)
  • Today Dauphine Tomorrow Nothing by Saga Hillborn (self-published)
  • Love’s Portrait by Anna Larner (Bold Strokes Books)
  • The Cursed Heart by Bonnie Wormsley (Regal Crest Enterprises)
  • Gentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In): The Real Anne Lister by Anne Choma (Penguin Books)
  • God's Children by Mabli Roberts (Honno Press)
• Ask Sappho: What’s the history of the slang term ‘tommy’ for a lesbian?
  • Reference: Examining the OED: CASE STUDY: TERMS FOR LESBIAN(ISM)