Given that most academic work on same-sex sexuality comes out of a western framework, it made sense to include this article in my focus group on non-western cultures. Rupp asks some incisive questions that problematize the question of whether there can ever be a unified filed of "same-sex sexuality."
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If you wanted a great, compact one-stop overview of lesbian-relevant history in Early Modern Europe, I don't know that I could improve on this article. In an odd way, that makes it very hard to summarize because it is, itself, a summary. There's no content in this article that I haven't already blogged in the context of more focused articles, so I won't even try. But I wanted to give it a shout-out as doing an excellent job of what it set out to do.
This article is taken from a collection of survey works of variable utility. The next item I blog is also from the collection but digresses briefly from the current cluster of Asia-relevant articles in order to keep the two together.
Nothing of interest to see here from a sapphic point of view, but there is an interesting discussion of apparent alignment in global social trends and how to think about coincidences and whether the trends are genuinely "similar."
This publication represents something of my "holy grail" for research on non-Western queer history: a deep dive, covering pre-20th century material, written by a scholar operating within the culture being investigated.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 330 - On the Shelf for December 2025 - Transcript
(Originally aired 2025/12/06)
Welcome to On the Shelf for December 2025.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 329 – Ma’am, This is a Fruit Stand by Maya Dworsky-Rocha - transcript
(Originally aired 2025/11/29)
On my last UCB library visit, I borrowed this book, expecting just to skim through it and find that it was limited to male-relevant content and being surpriset to be wrong, as I note below. So I lined it up to post after the last cluster of journal articles, expecting it to be a one-off interruption in the article flow. But when I sorted through the 100+ articles I had in my to-do folder and tagged them with themes so I could find thematic clusters (because that's more fun), I found I had a solid set of articles on Asian cultures. So the next month will follow that theme.
If I hadn't already assigned this a blog number, I would have skipped it.
It's probably a tribute to how many articles on Early Modern cross-dressing I’ve blogged that this one doesn’t seem to have said anything I find new. Which is perhaps unfair to the article, but it means these notes are going to skim a lot.
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