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087. Clutch Your Pearls & Think of New England Apr 27, 2021

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"Safe sex" in romance novels with Dame Jodie Slaughter, part 2. We'll finish discussing the research published in 2000 about if reading romance impacts condom usage, and then I'll share some Twitter poll results from the community about condom usage in the last contemporary romance they read, as well as some results on where folks learned information about safe sex - what's your guess on how many were impacted by media including romance novels?

Jodie and I brainstorm some ways to incorporate less commonly covered aspects of safe sex and sexual health in romance novels. Plus, how do WASPs teach sex education?

If you haven't listened to episode 086, you probably want to take a listen to part 1 of this conversation before diving in.

Episode 086:

Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

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15 Romance Novel Audiobooks that Combine Swoony Words with Great Performances
Check out Shelf Love’s updated website including the transcript for this episode
Shelf Love episodes with transcripts

Guest: Jodie Slaughter

Twitter | Instagram | Check out Jodie's Books

Research discussed:

LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO BE CAREFUL: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior

Amanda B. Diekman, Wendi L. Gardner, Mary McDonald

Twitter Polls:

Safe Sex in last contemporary romance novel you read

Sources of sex education

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086. Sex Education & Romance Novels: Not Medical Advice (with Dame Jodie Slaughter) Apr 20, 2021

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Dame Jodie Slaughter joins me to talk about sex education, the messages about safe sex in romance novels, the symbolic nature of sexual choices in romance, and discussion of research on these topics.

Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

Sign up for the email newsletter list | Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com
15 Romance Novel Audiobooks that Combine Swoony Words with Great Performances
Check out Shelf Love’s updated website including the transcript for this episode
Shelf Love episodes with transcripts

Guest: Jodie Slaughter

Twitter | Instagram | Check out Jodie's Books

Research discussed:

LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO BE CAREFUL: The Relationship Between Reading Romance Novels and Safe Sex Behavior

Amanda B. Diekman, Wendi L. Gardner, Mary McDonald

Shelf Love:

NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

085. Reflections on 2020 Listener Favorite Episodes, 2021 Plans Apr 13, 2021

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I reflect on listener favorite episodes from 2020, share what I'll be speaking more of in 2021, and say thank you to the Holiday Fairies! (Originally recorded in January when 2021 was still fresh.)

Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

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Listener Favorite Episodes from 2020 (Popular Vote - i.e. downloads)

Jess's Favorites: (You can hear Jess on 047. Rose Lerner Double Header with Shelf Lovely Jess)

Super Special Thank You's who went above and beyond to help with Holiday Fairies:

Holiday Fairies: Amazing Newsletter Sponsors To Support

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084. Captive Romance: Problematic Favorite Tropes Apr 06, 2021

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Evil Prince Jack Harbon busts captive romance out of its cage: is captivity and kidnapping only found in dark romance, or are its themes more prevalent? We discuss why this trope is pleasurable and different manifestations in popular culture: Beauty and the Beast, Persephone Hades, the patriarchy, medical school, and alien abduction.

Show Notes:

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Guest: Jack Harbon

Twitter | Instagram | Website | His Beauty | Worship

Mentioned:

The Fascinating Link Between Alien Abduction Reports and Sadomasochistic Fantasies

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083. Earth is Ghetto: Joyless Hags Book Club Mar 30, 2021

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1 Bonkers Book; 3 Joyless Hags. If you could escape earth, would you happily hitch your wagon to a lizard-man's space ship? When we scratch the surface of alien abduction romance, what do we find, and does insta-love exist? All of these questions are answered in the first ever Joyless Hags Book Club. I'm joined by Tasha L. Harrison and Katrina Jackson to discuss Alien Mate Experiment by Zenobia Renquist.

Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

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Guests:

Katrina Jackson: Twitter | Instagram | Kat’s Email newsletter | Buy Beautiful & Dirty

Kat's other episodes: An Unconditional Freedom | Polyamory/Financial Conversations | Kink | Angst | Religion | History | Blind Date With A Book Boyfriend by Lucy Eden | Modern Romance Canon

Tasha L. Harrison: Twitter | Tasha's website | Buy A Taste of Her Own Medicine

Tasha's other episodes: Tasha L. Harrison Writes Romance for Black People | A Duke by Default

Vibes:

Earth is a Ghetto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr2xMRSObto

We Discuss:

Alien Mate Experiment by Zenobia Renquist

Shelf Love:

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082. Critical Reading as Liberation from Mimicry of the Powerful Mar 23, 2021

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Dr. Julie Moody-Freeman, host of Black Romance Podcast, uses a multi-modal cultural studies perspective to engage students in critical engagement with Black romance texts to "liberate learners from the mimicry of the powerful."

Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

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Guest: Dr. Julie Moody-Freeman

Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul | Twitter

Listen to Black Romance Podcast

Website | Apple Podcasts | Spotify

Article we talk about:

Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture By Douglas Kellner

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/SAGEcs.htm

Mentioned:

Hsu-Ming Teo's interview that I mentioned in the episode
- http://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/RAUDEM/article/view/4297

Progression of me discovering I might have ADHD:

Awareness: 046. A Conspiracy of Whispers by Ada Harper with Bree (from Kit Rocha)
Recognition: 053. Tasha L. Harrison Writes Romance For Black People
Dawning Realization: 054. A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole with Tasha L. Harrison

Shelf Love:

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Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

081. From History to histories Mar 16, 2021

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Part 1: https://shelflovepodcast.com/episodes/season-2/episode-80/080-i-now-pronounce-you-colonialism-capitalism-white-supremacy/

Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

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Check out Shelf Love’s updated website including the transcript for this episode
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Guest: Dr. Margo Hendricks

Website | Twitter

Article we talk about:

Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism: An Afterward by Jennifer L. Morgan

https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/33/4 (125)/153/31135/Archives-and-Histories-of-Racial-CapitalismAn

A very short starter reading list sent by Dr. Hendricks:

Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, & Discoveries of the English
Imtiaz Habib, Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Black London Before Emancipation
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
Annette Gordon-Reed, Racism in America
The Vision of China in the English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century. Edited by Adrian Hsia, Chinese U P, 1998
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America, eds., Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, Jennifer L. Morgan
Stephanie Camp, "Early European Views of African Bodies: Beauty," Sexuality and Slavery, ed. Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris
Jerng, Mark C. Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (2018)
Baez, Jillian, "Navigating and Negotiating Latina Beauty" (In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship) (2018)
Akhimie, Patricia, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and conduct in the Early Modern World
Readers: Critical Race Theory, Critical White Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies
Elizabeth Kingston, "Romanticizing White Supremacy" (2018)
Chess, Simone, Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations
Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Ed. Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks. New York: Routledge, 2014.

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Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

080. I Now Pronounce You Colonialism, Capitalism, & White Supremacy Mar 09, 2021

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Have you ever wondered when Shelf Love would finally cover the unholy marriage of Colonialism, Imperialism, Capitalism, and White Supremacy? Dr. Margo Hendricks drops in to explain why you can't talk about just one because they're inextricably linked. Yes, this is still a romance novel podcast!

Show Notes:

Shelf Love:

Sign up for the email newsletter list | Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com
Check out Shelf Love’s updated website including the transcript for this episode
Shelf Love episodes with transcripts

Guest: Dr. Margo Hendricks

Website | Twitter

Article we talk about:

Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism: An Afterward by Jennifer L. Morgan

Episodes Mentioned:

073 & 074 about The Secular Scripture by Northrop Frye with Dr. Angela Toscano

077 & 078 with Dame Jodie Slaughter about Twilight and Bridgerton (noodling on some ideas that eventually became my current research project)

To Be Alone With You by Jodie Slaughter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Y92DR54/

A very short starter reading list sent by Dr. Hendricks:

Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, & Discoveries of the English
Imtiaz Habib, Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Black London Before Emancipation
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
Annette Gordon-Reed, Racism in America
The Vision of China in the English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century. Edited by Adrian Hsia, Chinese U P, 1998
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America, eds., Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, Jennifer L. Morgan
Stephanie Camp, "Early European Views of African Bodies: Beauty," Sexuality and Slavery, ed. Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris
Jerng, Mark C. Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (2018)
Baez, Jillian, "Navigating and Negotiating Latina Beauty" (In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship) (2018)
Akhimie, Patricia, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and conduct in the Early Modern World
Readers: Critical Race Theory, Critical White Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies
Elizabeth Kingston, "Romanticizing White Supremacy" (2018)
Chess, Simone, Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations
Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Ed. Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks. New York: Routledge, 2014.

Shelf Love:

NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

079. There's Only One Heart: Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant (Crossover with Boobies & Noobies) Mar 04, 2021

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You've heard of "there's only one bed" romance trope - are you ready for: "There's Only One Heart"? Kelly Reynolds from Boobies & Noobies invited me on her show in October 2020 and we discussed Austin Chant's Caroline's Heart. Plus, learn a bit about Shelf Love's exciting new research project.

Show Notes

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Book: Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant

Guest: Kelly Reynolds from Boobies & Noobies Podcast

@BoobiesPodcast on Twitter and Instagram

Learn more about Shelf Love's Bridgerton Research project: https://shelflovepodcast.com/blog/posts/bridgerton-research

Shelf Love:

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Email: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

078. Romance Curious: Bridgerton So Hashtag Diverse (with Jodie Slaughter, part 2) Jan 30, 2021

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Will Bridgerton inspire romance curiosity for a new generation? Jodie Slaughter became a romance reader by way of Twilight and Twilight fanfiction. When newbies take their first clumsy steps into romancelandia, will they be welcomed with the benefit of the doubt or shunned for arriving at the HEA gates too late?

Part 2 - listen to episode 77 for part 1.

Show Notes:

Don't miss part 1, 077. Twilight Fan Fiction: Climbing into a Can of Worms with Jodie Slaughter (part 1)

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