page_title: She Must Be Seeing Things
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: She Must Be Seeing Things / Plot
caption_attribution_description: Español: Catalina de Erauso (San Sebastián, España, 1592 - Cuitlaxtla, México, 1650), llamada "La Monja Alférez", fue una monja y soldado española.
context_page_description: She Must Be Seeing Things is a 1987 lesbian feminist film directed by Sheila McLaughlin and starring Lois Weaver and Sheila Dabney. It was the film debut of both Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. It was controversial when first released.
context_section_description: The film focuses on the relationship between filmmaker Jo (Lois Weaver) and her girlfriend, lawyer Agatha (Sheila Dabney). While tidying the books and papers in Jo's flat, Agatha finds suggestive photos of Jo and her former (male) lovers. She also finds a diary, with more photos and pages about men that Jo has known in the past. Agatha becomes suspicious that Jo is seeing a man as well as her, and even appears to follow her.
  The film is ambiguous about whether Agatha is imagining events, or whether there really are things going on that she must be seeing. Despite the strains of an arduous filming schedule for Jo's low-budget film, they are happily reconciled by the end, although  the issue of whether Agatha was imagining things is apparently left unresolved. Jo's film-within-a-film involves the life of Catalina de Erauso (c. 1592–1650), a semi-legendary personality from 17th century Spain. Catalina was given a special dispensation by Pope Urban VII to live, work and dress as a man.
  The Catalina story to some extent mirrors the butch-femme aspect of Jo and Agatha's relationship.
caption: Catalina de Erauso. Portrait attributed to Juan van der Hamen.
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