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This collection covers varied perspectives on both canonical and lesser-known Catholic women writers, all focusing on unruliness in what is commonly thought of as a restrictive site of writing for women: Catholicism. This volume is comprised of fourteen selected essays divided into three main sections by chronology: (1) medieval through the seventeenth centuries; (2) eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and (3) the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Geared towards scholars of literary criticism and women’s studies, this collection addresses issues of gender and religion that remain central to the lives of many women living in the world today.
"Dedicated to 'unruly women everywhere,' this collection of essays is as provacative as it is academic. Who would expect a collection of scholarly writings about Catholicism to include chapters titled, 'I Grab the Microphone and Move My Body' and 'Dis-robing the Priest'? But my favorite essay cites correlation in the work of sister Helen Prejean (of Dead Man Walking fame) and that of voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Who knew?"--John Lewis, Balitmore Magazine
"This is a sophisticated, varied, and provocative collection that captures the current debates about the Catholic Church and women--whether misogynist and oppressive or ultimately liberatory--and applies that range of positions to a wonderful range of writings by Catholic women writers from many traditions--Renaissance English and Spanish, United States, Canadian, French, Native American, Caribbean, and Mexican-American. It will be a welcome addition to the field."--Jane L. Donawerth, University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher; Co-editor of the journal, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Jeana DelRosso is Chair of the English Department and Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She has previously published Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary International Catholic Girlhood Narratives (Palgrave Macmillan 2005) and her articles have appeared in NWSA Journal and MELUS. Leigh Eicke is Assistant Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Her article on Jane Barker was published in Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800 (2002), and she is currently working on a book-length study of gender and Jacobitism in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Ana Kothe is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. She has published articles on issues of gender in Modern Language Studies, English Language Notes, and Women’s Studies. Currently, she is completing a translation of selected works by the seventeenth-century nun and writer, Ana Abarca de Bolea.
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