Graceful exits : Catholic women and the art of departure / / Debra Campbell
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| Autore: |
Campbell Debra <1953->
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| Titolo: |
Graceful exits : Catholic women and the art of departure / / Debra Campbell
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-282-07145-9 |
| 9786612071454 | |
| 0-253-11071-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819731503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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