In the 16th century, a handful of (male) French anatomists "discovered" the clitoris. And then things get really strange.
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There are some historians whose field of interest overlaps the focus of the Project very solidly. Susan Lanser is one of them. I have 13 publications under her name in my database and have now blogged 10 of them. I have another in my files, but two are yet to be tracked down. And I should probably hunt down her full bibliography and see what else I haven't stumbled across yet.
This article was cross-referenced in another of Susan Lanser's articles I blogged recently, so I took that as a cue to move it up in the queue. I'll follow it with yet another Lanser take on the long 18th century.
Happy Big Round Number to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project!
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 320 - On the Shelf for August 2025 - Transcript
(Originally aired 2025/08/03 - listen here)
Welcome to On the Shelf for August 2025.
I have a busy month or so coming up. In about a week I’ll be heading off to the World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle. Then a couple weeks after that, I’m headed off to New Zealand for my official, if belated, retirement celebration trip.
A look at female relations within Bluestocking circles and what sorts of evidence exist that some relations were queerer than others.
I've blogged several articles on sapphic aspects of Bluestocking culture over the years. Since I was blogging a different article in this special issue on Bluestockings, I figured I'd include this general introduction to their history as well. (I confess that I have something of a "thing" for brainy women in women-centered historic contexts.)
This publication is wildly out of order in the numbering system for logistical reasons. Specifically: It had a lot of primary source quotations which I was mining for my vocabulary project, which took quite a while to process. It didn't make sense to read through it to create a blog entry then come back to process the vocabulary. But in order to create the entries in the vocabulary database, I needed to assign it a LHMP publication number. So I've been posting a bunch of later numbers while working my way thorugh the data entry for this one. More details than you wanted to know!
Part chance and part strategy, I'm in the middle of a sequence of pairs of related articles: 2 on linguistics, 2 on Eliza Haywood, 2 on bluestockings, 2 on anatomical issues.
I've been trying to figure out how to write a podcast on Eliza Haywood without actually having to read a bunch of 18th century novels.
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