Undressing the lieutenant nun
Author : Eric Seth Solomon
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Eric Seth Solomon
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Sherry Velasco
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 029277379X
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 about." Her long service fighting for the Spanish empire in Peru and Chile won her a soldier's pension and a papal dispensation to continue dressing in men's clothing. This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed by both the dominant and divergent cultures in Europe, Latin America, and the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Sherry Velasco argues that the ways in which literary, theatrical, iconographic, and cinematic productions have transformed Erauso's life experience into a public spectacle show how transgender narratives expose and manipulate spectators' fears and desires. Her book thus reveals what happens when the private experience of a transgenderist is shifted to the public sphere and thereby marketed as a hybrid spectacle for the curious gaze of the general audience.
Author : Catalina De Erauso
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0807095664
One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her lifetime she emerged as the adored folkloric hero of the Spanish-speaking world. This delightful translation of Catalina's own work introduces a new audience to her audacious escapades.
Author : Eva Mendieta-Lombardo
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Page : 243 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2009
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Author : Heidi Zogbaum
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Page : 133 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Basques
ISBN : 9781925003819
Catalina de Erauso, known as the Lieutenant Nun, is one of the most colourful figures in the conquest of the Americas. A novice in a nunnery, she escaped and dressed as a boy. She then embarked on a chequered career in Peru as a soldier. Zogbaum follows the path of this exceptional woman and the historical circumstances which allowed such capers.
Author : sm velasco
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Catalina de Erauso.
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Page : 79 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Heroes
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Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Irving Wallace
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1932595295
Presents intimate and revealing information about the sexual exploits of over two hundred famous individuals of the near and distant past.