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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Kirsty Loehr, "A Short History of Queer Women" (Oneworld Publications, 2022)
Description: Kirsty Loehr talks about her new book, A Short History of Queer Women (Oneworld Publications, 2022). Queer women have always existed – let’s put them back in the history books No, they weren't ‘just friends’! We’ve read Jane Eyre, but what about the five hundred love letters Charlotte Brontë and Ellen Nussey exchanged? Or how Córdoban princess Wallada bint al-Mustakfi stitched tales of her sexual exploits with men and women onto her tunic? Or the Ladies of Llangollen who would have Anne Lister over for tea? Female same-sex desire has been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians fa...