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On the Shelf for January 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 332

3 Jan 202636 min
On the Shelf for January 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 332 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Summary of the Project in 2025
  • Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
    • Xie, Wenjuan. 2015. (Trans)Culturally Transgendered: Reading Transgender Narratives in (Late) Imperial China. Dissertation.
    • Sommer, Matthew H. “Was China Part of a Global Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality?” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, 2007, pp. 117–33.
    • Carton, Adrian. 2006. “Desire and Same-Sex Intimacies in Asia” in Gay Life and Culture, A World History, ed. Robert Aldrich. Universe Publishing, New York. ISBN 978-0-7893-1511-3
    • Gowing, Laura. 2006. ”Lesbians and Their Like in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800” in Gay Life and Culture: A World History ed. Robert Aldrich. London: Thames and Hudson. 125-43
    • Rupp, Leila J. 2001. “Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality” in Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 10, No. 2: 287-302
    • Leupp, Gary P. 2007. “Capitalism and Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century Japan.” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 135–52.
    • Pflugfelder, Gregory M. 1992. “Strange Fates: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Torikaebaya Monogatari” in Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 47, No. 3 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 347-368.
    • Shah, Shalini. 1991. “Women and Sexuality in the Mahabharata” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 52: 138-144.
    • Srivastava, Manjari & Manjari Shrivastava. 2007. “Lesbianism in Nineteenth Century Erotic Urdu Poetry “Rekhti”” in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 68, Part One: 965-988
  • Book Shopping
    • The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
  • Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • What I’ve been consuming
    • The Case of the Missing Maid by Rob Osler
    • Saint-Seducing Gold by Brittany N. William
    • A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory
    • Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti
    • Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
    • Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie
    • The Scandal at Pemberley by Mara Brooks
    • The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub
    • The Lady’s Wager by Olivia Hampton
  • Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
  • This month we interview M.K. Hardy and talk about:

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

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