Reconciling Catholicism and feminism? personal reflections on tradition and change
edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Ron Ebest ; foreword by Sandra Gilbert.
- Notre Dame, Ind University of Notre Dame Press c2003
- xxx, 288 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
American Catholic feminism: a history / The form didn't fit: charting new maps, illuminating new spaces / Feminism and Catholicism / Sex-linked traits / Serviam / Telling old tales about something new: the vocation of a Catholic and feminist historian / The elephant is slow to mate / After sufficient reflection: Catholic, feminist, and divorced / Dis/re/com/union / Respecting life and respecting women's lives: abortion, feminism, and my return to the Catholic Church / Irish women reconciling Catholicism and feminism: the abortion question / Reconciling Latin American Catholicism and feminism / Reconciling the places where memory resides / Journey from/to Catholicism / Catholicism and the contraceptive debate, 1914-1930 / Politics and paradox in nineteenth-century Irish American society: Mary Anne Sadlier and the Catholic woman's role / Conversations between mothers and daughters in the father's house / Race, sex, and spirit: Chicana negotiations of Catholicism / A most noble city of ladies: university students explore their Catholic identity through literature by French women / Evolving feminisms / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Jean Molesky-Poz -- Janet Kalven -- Jean McGarry -- Madeleine Blais -- Linda A. McMillin -- Flavia Alaya -- Victoria Kill -- Nancy Mairs -- Kathleen M. Joyce -- Mary Kenny -- Nilsa Lasso-Von Lang -- Brad Peters -- Jane Zeni -- Kathleen A. Tobin -- Mary Jo T. Marcellus -- Lorraine Liscio, Jeanne Noonan-Eckholdt -- Theresa Delgadillo -- Henrik Borgstrom -- Sally Barr Ebest. Part I. Looking back : Feminism and Catholicism in the twentieth century Part II. Looking ahead : Feminism and catholicism in the next generation
In this collection of essays, 22 writers, historians, theologians and feminists thoughtfully reflect on their own personal experiences with the Catholic Church. The essayists describe how they have, or in some cases have not, come to terms with a church that does not permit them full participation.
0268040141 (cloth : alk. paper) 0268040206 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003009071
Catholic Church
Women in the Catholic Church.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Catholic Church --Doctrines
Women's movement
BX2347.8.W6 / R42 2003
282.082 Rec 8
Includes bibliographical references and index.
American Catholic feminism: a history / The form didn't fit: charting new maps, illuminating new spaces / Feminism and Catholicism / Sex-linked traits / Serviam / Telling old tales about something new: the vocation of a Catholic and feminist historian / The elephant is slow to mate / After sufficient reflection: Catholic, feminist, and divorced / Dis/re/com/union / Respecting life and respecting women's lives: abortion, feminism, and my return to the Catholic Church / Irish women reconciling Catholicism and feminism: the abortion question / Reconciling Latin American Catholicism and feminism / Reconciling the places where memory resides / Journey from/to Catholicism / Catholicism and the contraceptive debate, 1914-1930 / Politics and paradox in nineteenth-century Irish American society: Mary Anne Sadlier and the Catholic woman's role / Conversations between mothers and daughters in the father's house / Race, sex, and spirit: Chicana negotiations of Catholicism / A most noble city of ladies: university students explore their Catholic identity through literature by French women / Evolving feminisms / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Jean Molesky-Poz -- Janet Kalven -- Jean McGarry -- Madeleine Blais -- Linda A. McMillin -- Flavia Alaya -- Victoria Kill -- Nancy Mairs -- Kathleen M. Joyce -- Mary Kenny -- Nilsa Lasso-Von Lang -- Brad Peters -- Jane Zeni -- Kathleen A. Tobin -- Mary Jo T. Marcellus -- Lorraine Liscio, Jeanne Noonan-Eckholdt -- Theresa Delgadillo -- Henrik Borgstrom -- Sally Barr Ebest. Part I. Looking back : Feminism and Catholicism in the twentieth century Part II. Looking ahead : Feminism and catholicism in the next generation
In this collection of essays, 22 writers, historians, theologians and feminists thoughtfully reflect on their own personal experiences with the Catholic Church. The essayists describe how they have, or in some cases have not, come to terms with a church that does not permit them full participation.
0268040141 (cloth : alk. paper) 0268040206 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003009071
Catholic Church
Women in the Catholic Church.
Feminism--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Catholic Church --Doctrines
Women's movement
BX2347.8.W6 / R42 2003
282.082 Rec 8