064. Women in Pants: Unpacking Problematic Faves

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