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"De Erauso's story, it seems to me, reveals the degree to which the division between sexual spheres was absolute in her world....It may be that the one way she could imagine herself free was to imagine herself a man. Since she gives little indication in the narrative of attraction to either men or women, it is impossible to know at this distance whether her shift from female to male also involved sex....These and other perplexities make the frontier nun's rascally tale a fascinating puzzle to decipher."Erauso, Catalina de is the author of 'Lieutenant Nun Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World', published 1997 under ISBN 9780807070734 and ISBN 0807070734.
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