Catalina de erauso biography of mahatma

Catalina de Erauso was a woman leading the life of a man in sixteenth century Spain and eventually on to the New World.

Wind does sometimes gloss over aspects of history that were less pleasant, like Mahatma Catalina De Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun who crossed gender boundaries.

Her journey begins as a young woman in covenant of nuns, where she was training to be a nun herself. Catalina was a pioneer and challenged rigid gender roles by dressing and living majority of her life as a man. As readers we see Catalina distancing herself from identities that are typically associated with being female. She shows very little emotion, which is typically a feminine emotion, and becomes very desensitized to her violent acts.

Catalina also distances herself from people. She does not take time to allow herself to make connections with other people. She does not spend more than a few months in a town due to the risk of someone finding her out.

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Say no to plagiarism. Growing up in Spain, she spent most of her young life in the church. She was in the process of training to become a nun but left mid process. She felt as if it was too restraining always being questioned. In the introduction, it is discussed that after killing her brother she finds solace in the church.

She grew up in the church, so she feels like that is the only community she has. She never forms close attachments while she travels, so the church is all she has. Catalina often finds herself running back to churches though. After leaving Panama she travels with her master to the Port of Paita where she finds herself in a quarrel.