Please note this episode was recorded in August 2023.

Today I’m joined by Alexandra Collinson, a third year PhD student at Newcastle University studying eighteenth-century literature. We’ll be talking about her project, The Sex Workers’ Revolution: Prostitution and Feminism in Women’s writing, 1787-1801, and more broadly about women, sex work, virtue and motherhood in eighteeth century England and Ireland. 

Alex’s PhD project asserts that revolutionary feminists such as Marie-Madeleine Jodin and Mary Wollstonecraft, were not the only female writers to intervene in the patriarchal domain of late eighteenth-century politics. Her research shows that sex workers like Margaret Leeson and Ann Sheldon also made important contributions to feminist discourses on women’s nature and social roles in memoirs and legal testimonies published throughout the period.

Alex’s other research interests include women’s life writing, and representations of sexuality, maternity, and prostitution in eighteenth-century literature. Her PhD project is funded by a Arts and Humanities Research Council Northern Bridge Studentship.

Alex's twitter: https://x.com/AlexCollinson7?t=68q4W_AWb6zzH3BzegysNA&s=09 Alex's Newcastle Uni profile: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/research/literature/literature-pgr-students/current-students/alex-collinson/

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Content warning: rape discussed at 14-16mins

In today's episode I have the absolute honour of talking to Dr Kathleen Lubey about her new book What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century.

Kathleen is a lecturer at St John’s University in Queen’s, New York, USA. She specilises in the literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain, sexuality and gender studies, the history of pornography, and literature of the British slave trade.

Her current book, What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century, examines archival texts to trace currents of feminism and social justice in British pornography from the 1740s to the present.

Buy What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century. Use the code “Lubey20” to get 20% off the paperback: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31053

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Content warning: Rape and sexual assault will be discussed throughout.

Today is a special episode as I have Dr Julie Taddeo and Dr Katherine Byrne joining me to talk about their 2022 book Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy. We will be discussing representations of rape in TV shows such as Outlander, Poldark, Harlots, Bridgerton, Banished and more. Dr Julie Taddeo is a Research Professor of British History at the University of Maryland in the USA. She has published multiple books and articles on topics including the Bloomsbury Group and British modernism; the British novelists Catherine Cookson and Anne Perry; Steampunk; and British period drama TV. Dr Katherine Byrne teaches English at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, and has published many books and articles about period drama, Victorian literature and medicine, women’s writing, and the Gothic. Thanks again to both of them for joining me!

Apologies for the poor audio quality from my mic, I clearly sat in an area of the house with poor wifi, baby podcaster lesson learned!

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