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Graceful exits : Catholic women and the art of departure / / Debra Campbell



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Autore: Campbell Debra <1953-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Graceful exits : Catholic women and the art of departure / / Debra Campbell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
Disciplina: 282/.082
Soggetto topico: Catholic women - Biography - History and criticism
Ex-church members - Catholic Church - Biography - History and criticism
Ex-nuns - Biography - History and criticism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index.
Nota di contenuto: I leap over the wall -- Falling away or crossing over? -- Be-ing is be/leaving -- A nun forever -- Coming home.
Sommario/riassunto: 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, dia
Titolo autorizzato: Graceful exits  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-07145-9
9786612071454
0-253-11071-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819731503321
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