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Lieutenant Nun - Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina De Erauso

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Informationen zum Autor By Sherry Velasco Klappentext This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed. Zusammenfassung 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 Sebastian, dressed as a man. This work presents an historical overview of the evolution of interpretations of the nun-ensign Catalina de Erauso. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 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

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Authors Sherry Velasco, Sherry M. Velasco
Publisher University Of Texas Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.02.2001
 
EAN 9780292787469
ISBN 978-0-292-78746-9
No. of pages 255
Series University of Texas Press
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > History
Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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