Reading Habits
Catalina de Erauso and the Subjects of Early Modern Spanish Gender and Sexuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12413801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Goldmark (California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-235 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Colonial Latin American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-9164 • E-ISSN: 1466-1802 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10609164.2015.1040278 |
| OpenAlex | W1502547966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article reconsiders the subject of early modern Spanish gender and sexuality studies by analyzing the relación de méritos y servicios presented by the famed ‘Lieutenant Nun’ Catalina de Erauso to the Council of the Indies. Studies have focused on the Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alferez, a biography of disputed authorship, and its transgressive protagonist who hides gender identity and illicit desires from persecuting authorities. In contrast, this article studies the petition to show how Erauso’s identity depends upon bureaucratic forms, their standardized content, and collective authorship. In so doing, it moves from a study of gender transgression to a reading of ‘hábitos’—a term that designates interlocking categories of gender, dress, profession, and social status. By shifting the subject of gender and sexuality studies to this web instantiated by ‘hábitos,’ this article shows how collaborative acts of reading and writing allowed privileged subjects to navigate identity and empire in the seventeenth-century Spanish Atlantic world
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Biography · Bureaucracy · Empire · Human sexuality · Humanities · Identity (music · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Subject (documents · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |