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Title

Religious women and their history : breaking the silence / editor, Rosemary Raughter.

Publication

Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Raughter, Rosemary.
• University College, Dublin. Women's Education Research and Resource Centre.

Description

x, 150 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In her introductory essay, Margaret MacCurtain considers the apparent conflict between the dictates of mainstream Christianity and the autonomy of its female adherents. Other articles include bibliographical analyses of pioneering figures such as Methodist Eliza Bennis, Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, and Mother Arsenius Morrogh Bernard of the Irish Sister of Charity, as well as studies of the institutional care and missionary efforts of Catholic, Presbyterian and Salvation Army women in the United States, India and Ireland. Literary representations of religious women are discussed in an examination of nuns and single women in the novels of Kate O'Brien, while Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's "J'ai mal a nos dents" is at once a celebration of her aunt, an Irish nun who spent much of her life in a French Convent, and a meditation on the significance of language. Finally, Maria Luddy outlines the potential for further study of women's religious faith and practice through the use of convent archives.

Subject

• Christian women > Historiography
• Christian women > Religious aspects
• Christian women > Religious life > Case studies
• Ireland > Church history > 18th century
• Ireland > Church history > 19th century
• Monasticism and religious orders for women
• Sex role > Christianity
• Women in Christianity > History
• Women in Christianity > Ireland > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The writing of religious women's history : Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779-1865) / Phil Kilroy -- Pious occupations : female activism and the Catholic revival in eighteenth-century Ireland / Rosemary Raughter -- Discovering Irish nuns in the nineteenth-century United States : the case of Chicago / Suellen Hoy -- Gender, public disorder and the Salvation Army in Ireland, 1880-82 / Janice Holmes -- 'Women's work for women' : the Irish Presbyterian Zenana Mission, 1874-1914 / Myrtle Hill -- Convent archives as sources for Irish history / Maria Luddy -- J'ai mal à nos dents / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.

ISBN

• 0716527596 (cloth)
• 071652760X (paper)

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Harvard Library