Discuss the memoirs of Catalina de Erauso.
1. How reliable is this memoir?
2. How did gender shape her life (or how she portrayed her life)/
3. How did globalization shape her life?
4. In what ways is Catalina de Erauso representative of her time and in what ways exceptional?
Use the following book for answering the above questions:
Stepto, Michele, and Stepto, Gabriel, eds. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. ISBN: 978-0-8070-7073-4.