John Jacobson, freelance editor at Carina Press, joins me to trouble the binaries as we unpack a problematic favorite trope: women in pants in historical romance novels.
Show Notes:
Guest: John Jacobson
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Notes:
- Johanna Lindsey - Gentle Rogue
- Amanda Bynes in She's The Man (2005 film)
- Judith Butler
- Virginia Henley - Seduced
- Susan Faludi's book: Backlash
- Disclosure (Netflix Documentary)
- Hélène Cixous
- Mallory Jagodzinski - On Bustles and Breeches: Cross Dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology.
- "You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us": Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance by Jodi McAlister in the Journal of Popular Romance Studies
Recent projects as editor:
- Ella Stainton - Best Laid Plaids
- The Immortal City by May Peterson
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