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Catholic Girlhood Narratives

Catholic Girlhood Narratives
Author: Elizabeth N. Evasdaughter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Thirty-three girlhood memoirs by a diverse group of Catholic women, including Sarah Bernhardt and Simone de Beauvoir, are the focus of this pioneering study.


Writing Catholic Women

Writing Catholic Women
Author: J. DelRosso
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137046546

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Writing Catholic Women examines the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality through the lens of Catholicism in a wide range of works by women writers, forging interdisciplinary connections among women's studies, religion, and late twentieth-century literature. Discussing a diverse group of authors, Jeana DelRosso posits that the girlhood narratives of such writers constitute highly charged sites of their differing gestures toward Catholicism and argues that an understanding of the ways in which women write about religion from different cultural and racial contexts offers a crucial contribution to current discussions in gender, ethnic, and cultural studies.


Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Author: Mary McCarthy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1957
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780156586504

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The author and her three brothers, left orphans at an early age, were raised together by guardians.


Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850–1950

Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism, 1850–1950
Author: Cara Delay
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1526136422

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This is the first book-length study to investigate the place of lay Catholic women in modern Irish history. It analyses the intersections of gender, class and religion by exploring the roles that middle-class, working-class and rural poor women played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities. The book demonstrates that in an age of Church growth and renewal, stretching from the aftermath of the Great Famine through the Free State years, lay women were essential to all aspects of Catholic devotional life, including both home-based religion and public rituals. It also reveals that women, by rejecting, negotiating and reworking Church dictates, complicated Church and clerical authority. Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism re-evaluates the relationship between the institutional Church, the clergy and women, positioning lay Catholic women as central actors in the making of modern Ireland.


The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers

The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers
Author: J. DelRosso
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2007-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230609309

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This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions.


Graceful Exits

Graceful Exits
Author: Debra Campbell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2003-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253110718

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The personal narratives of nine 20th-century Catholic female authors -- Monica Baldwin, Antonia White, Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon, Mary Daly, Barbara Ferraro, Patricia Hussey, Karen Armstrong, and Patricia Hampl -- speak eloquently about the process of departure from the church and its institutions. This study explores each author's breaking of the taboo associated with women leaving their "proper place." It locates five themes at the heart of all of their narratives: reversal, boundary crossing, diaspora, renaming, and recycling. Debra Campbell grapples with the spirituality of departure depicted by all nine women, for whom the very process of leaving Catholic institutions is a Catholic enterprise. These narratives support the popular maxim that no one ever really leaves the church. In the final chapter, Campbell examines narratives of return, confirming the book's overarching theme that neither departure nor return is ever finished.


Unruly Catholic Nuns

Unruly Catholic Nuns
Author: Jeana DelRosso
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438466498

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Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church. Unruly Catholic Nuns explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns and, by doing so, contributes to the global conversation about the role of women in the Catholic Church today. Through autobiography, fiction, poetry, and prose, Sisters and former nuns write about their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church. Through their stories we learn how these women act out their missions of social justice, challenge cultural and governmental policies, and attempt to reconcile their unruliness with their religious orders and the strictures of the church hierarchy. At a time when questions of gender, religion, race, and sexuality are provoking intense debate within Catholicism and other Christian traditions, and when religion is frequently invoked in political rhetoric, these stories provide a vital corrective to our contemporary understanding of the role of women and nuns in the Roman Catholic Church. Jeana DelRosso is Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Director of the Elizabeth Morrissy Honors Program at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Leigh Eicke is a writer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ana Kothe is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Together, they are the coeditors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism, also published by SUNY Press.


Catholic Women Writers

Catholic Women Writers
Author: Mary Reichardt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2001-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313016623

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Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each of the entries is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography of the author; a critical discussion of her works, especially her Catholic and women's themes; an overview of her critical reception; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Authors writing in all genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, children's literature, and essays, are represented. The entries give special attention to the authors' use of Catholic themes, structures, traditions, culture, and spirituality. The writers surveyed range from Doctors of the Church to mystics and visionaries, to those who employ Catholic themes primarily in historical and cultural contexts, to those who critique the tradition. An introductory essay places the writers within the historical and literary contexts of women's writing in the Catholic tradition, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.


Unruly Catholic Feminists

Unruly Catholic Feminists
Author: Jeana DelRosso
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438485026

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A collection of creative pieces, Unruly Catholic Feminists explores how women are coming to terms with their feminism and Catholicism in the twenty-first century. Through short stories, poems, and personal essays, third- and fourth-wave feminists write about the issues, reforms, and potential for progress. Giving voice to many younger writers, the book includes a variety of geographic and ethnic points of view from which women write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future. While change in the church may be slow to come, even the promise of progress may provide hope for women struggling with the conflicts between their religion and their sense of their own spirituality. Rather than always only oppressing or containing women, Catholicism also drives or inspires many to challenge literary, social, political, or religious hierarchies. By examining how women attempt to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions and their future hopes and dreams, Unruly Catholic Feminists offers new perspectives on gender and religion today—and for the days yet to come.


Between Human and Divine

Between Human and Divine
Author: Mary Reichardt
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813217393

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Between Human and Divine is the first collection of scholarly essays published on a wide variety of contemporary (post 1980) Catholic literary works and artists. Its aim is to introduce readers to recent and emerging writers and texts in the tradition.