Sherry Velasco

The Lieutenant Nun

Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed.

Produktdetails

• University of Texas Press
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780292787469
• ISBN-10: 0292787464
• Artikelnr.: 26466214

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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