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

Trade Review
With its careful balance between history and gender theory, this valuable study should be in every scholar's library. * Calíope *

Table of Contents
  • 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

The Lieutenant Nun Transgenderism Lesbian Desire

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/2001
      ISBN13: 9780292787469, 978-0292787469
      ISBN10: 0292787464

      Description

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

      Trade Review
      With its careful balance between history and gender theory, this valuable study should be in every scholar's library. * Calíope *

      Table of Contents
      • 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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