Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Hybrid Spectacles: Lesbian Desire, Monsters, and Masculine Women in Early Modern Spain 13
6. 2. Celebrity and Scandal: The Creation of the Lieutenant Nun in the Seventeenth Century 45
7. 3. Melodrama and the De-Lesbianized Reconstruction of the Lieutenant Nun in the Nineteenth Century 87
8. 4. From Cinema to Comics: The Re-Lesbianization of the Lieutenant Nun in the Twentieth Century 113
9. Conclusion 167
10. Appendix 173
11. Notes 177
12. Bibliography 217
13. Index 237