Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 346

Women and Same-Sex Marriage in Western History (Reprise)

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 346 with Heather Rose Jones

In this episode we talk about strategies for getting your historical protagonists hitched across the centuries.

How the concepts of “women”, “same-sex”, and “marriage” are being defined for the purpose of this discussion

Cultures that may have supported marriage between women as an equal option

Cases of same-sex marriage enabled by presenting as an opposite sex couple

The permeability of the “opposite sex” requirement in actual practice

Using the forms and rituals of marriage, even when the legal status was not available

This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here:

Marriage between women

Female husbands

A transcript of this podcast is available here.