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Episode 38
Published 6 years ago
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(Un)Conventional Women
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 38
A discussion of the long and tangled history of the historic fact and literary motif of lesbians in convents.
In this episode we talk about:
- A brief history of Christian attitudes toward sex and Western beliefs about women’s sexuality
- Convent regulations that address women’s romantic and sexual bonds
- Case histories of sexual activity between nuns
- How the Reformation changed the attitude toward convents in Protestant societies
- The lesbian nun in pornography
- The lesbian nun as religious polemic
- The lesbian nun in modern society
This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:
- monastic communities
- Casa della Zitelle
- Benedetta Carlini
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Tegernsee Manuscript
- Julie d’Aubigny
- The girl with no interest in marriage (Erasmus)
- Venus dans le Cloitre
- Upon Appleton House
- La Religieuse (Denis Diderot)
- Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (Adolphe Belot)
Other References mentioned
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
- RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
- Twitter: @LesbianMotif
- Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
- The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon
Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)