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

Informationen zum Autor Sherry Velasco is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. 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

Product details

• 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