02550nam 2200565 a 450 99624824250331620230928205438.00-472-90426-42027/heb04442(CKB)3360000000000541(dli)HEB04442(MiU)MIU01000000000000009480260(MdBmJHUP)musev2_113378(EXLCZ)99336000000000054120020116d2001 ub 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnconventional sisterhood feminist Catholic nuns in the Philippines /Heather L. ClaussenAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c2001.1 online resource (253 pages)Southeast Asia: politics, meaning, memory.ACLS Humanities E-Book.0-472-11221-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.Prolegomenon: First, a Word -- 1. Sign Me Sister, OSB -- 2. What Makes a Woman? -- 3. The Making of the Missionary Benedictines -- 4. Unggoy Formation -- 5. Reclaiming Philippine Faith as Feminist Practice -- 6. The Woman Question -- 7. Filipina Feminism(s) Revisited."Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, religious responsibility, and national identity in the context of a rapidly globalizing nation. And, unlike the popular stereotypes of staid sisters cloaked in rigid religious dogmatism, they are doing so by telling jokes, engaging in eclectic religious rituals, maintaining connections with a local nationalist cult, and committing themselves to a radical - and feminist - politics."--JacketSoutheast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.UNCONVENTIONAL SISTERHOODMissiezustersgttBenedictinessengttFeminismusgndMissiongndPhilippinengndPhilippinesfastMissiezusters.Benedictinessen.FeminismusMission271/.97Claussen Heather L.1968-1076449American Council of Learned Societies.NyNyACLNyNyACLBOOK996248242503316Unconventional sisterhood2587000UNISA