![]() ![]() The reader knows better, but young Jeanne wanders through training confused about why the church is so strict about “particular friendships” and what all the blushing and hand-holding is about between nuns she knows. Cordova as a postulant is hopelessly naive. In fact, it’s almost the opposite of that. This isn’t as scandalous as the subtitle “A Lesbian Nun Story” would have you believe. It also ended up being an interesting prologue to When We Were Outlaws: I wouldn’t have guessed that passionate lesbian activist spent her childhood yearning to be a nun. Cordova wrote a memoir about her activism titled When We Were Outlaws which I reviewed at the Lesbrary previously, so I knew that her writing style agree with me. Is it surprising that lesbians are over-represented in that number? In addition to this being a lesbian nun book, it’s also by an author I already enjoy. It actually makes total sense: historically, at least in the Western world, one of the few avenues that women had available to them if they didn’t want to get married to men and have children was to become a nun. ![]() I love that there are multiple books on the subject. I will admit, I find the idea of lesbian nuns fascinating. ![]()
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