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Queer Women’s Communities and Meeting Places The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 55

An exploration of how and where women met to pursue romantic and sexual relationships with each other.

In this episode we talk about:

• The problem of assuming that male and female homosexual experiences are equivalent in history
• Fictional and conceptual communities
• Public meeting places
• Small personal communities
• Lesbian sex clubs

The following podcasts are referenced in this show:

• Diana and Callisto: The Sometimes Problematic Search for Representation
• Charlotte Cushman: 19th century lesbian actress and celebrity

The following publications covered on the blog are mentioned in this show or used as sources:

• Albert, Nicole G. (Trans. Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston) 2016. Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-siècle France. Harrington Park Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-939-59407-5 (not yet posted in the blog)
• Bennett, Judith M. 2000. "’Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianism" in Journal of the History of Sexuality: 9:1-24.
• Borris, Kenneth (ed). 2004. Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-1-138-87953-9
• Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4
• Donoghue, Emma. 2010. “'Random Shafts of Malice?': The Outings of Anne Damer” in Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Beynon, John C. & Caroline Gonda eds. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 978-0-7546-7335-4
• Habib, Samar. 2009. Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality: 850-1780 A.D. Teneo Press, Youngstown. ISBN 978-1-934844-11-3
• Hunt, Margaret R. 1999. “The Sapphic Strain: English Lesbians in the Long Eighteenth Century” in Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
• Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0
• Merrick, Jeffrey & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. 2001. Homosexuality in Early Modern France: A Documentary Collection. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-510257-6
• Norton, Rictor (ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 7 September 2014 http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/. (Accessed 2014/09/13)
• Traub, Valerie. 2002. The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-44885-9
• Walen, Denise A. 2005. Constructions of Fe