Famed as the legendary Nun Lieutenant, Catalina de Erauso, fighter, lover and all round adventurer, was perhaps even more revered for her status as a supreme seducer than her skills with a sword. After escaping the convent where she spent her childhood, Catalina fashioned herself hose and doublet and made her way through Spain and South America under a number of male guises. Her pattern of lawbreaking, finding sanctuary in churches and evading execution eventually got her an audience with the Pope himself. So don your habit, grab your sword and join us for one hell of an adventure.

De Erauso, Catalina. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World. Beacon Press, 2011.

Velasco, Sherry M. Lieutenant Nun Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, & Catalina De Erauso. 1st ed. Austin: U of Texas, 2000.

Web. Hernández Isabel ‘From Spain to the Americas, from the convent to the front: Catalina de Erauso's shifting identities: Catalina de Erauso's shifting identities’ 16 September 2011 https://www.eurozine.com/from-spain-to-the-americas-from-the-convent-to-the-front-catalina-de-erausos-shifting-identities/

Villanueva, Sonia Pérez. The Life of Catalina De Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun : an Early-Modern Autobiography. 2014.

Wirzba, Norman. Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America, Oxford University Press USA, 2003.

If you want to support Deviant Women, follow us on: 

Patreon

Twitter @DeviantWomen

Facebook @deviantwomenpodcast

Instagram @deviantwomenpodcast

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.