The Lieutenant Nun : : Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso / / Sherry Velasco.
Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastián, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Hybrid Spectacles: Lesbian Desire, Monsters, and Masculine Women in Early Modern Spain
- 2. Celebrity and Scandal: The Creation of the Lieutenant Nun in the Seventeenth Century
- 3. Melodrama and the De-Lesbianized Reconstruction of the Lieutenant Nun in the Nineteenth Century
- 4. From Cinema to Comics: The Re-Lesbianization of the Lieutenant Nun in the Twentieth Century
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index