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Particular Friendships: a Convent Memoir

Author : Kathleen J. Waites
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462808115
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Particular Friendships: a Convent Memoir written by Kathleen J. Waites and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in the late 1960s. The young narrator arrives with gentle visions spawned by The Sound of Music, only to encounter the harshness of life in this secretive society. Her wit, compassion, and musicality foment a rebellion against rules forbidding expressions of joy and intimacy, as she struggles between allegiance to the heart and her vow of blind obedience to flawed and abusive superiors. Recently filed lawsuits against the Church suggest that the timing could not be better for an ex-nuns memoir. Part mystery, part coming of age story, this narrative seeks neither to damn nor to exonerate but to uncover the truth.

Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir

Author : Kathleen J. Waites
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 159926675X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir written by Kathleen J. Waites and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in the late 1960s. The young narrator arrives with gentle visions spawned by The Sound of Music, only to encounter the harshness of life in this secretive society. Her wit, compassion, and musicality foment a rebellion against rules forbidding expressions of joy and intimacy, as she struggles between allegiance to the heart and her vow of blind obedience to flawed and abusive superiors. Recently filed lawsuits against the Church suggest that the timing could not be better for an ex-nun's memoir. Part mystery, part coming of age story, this narrative seeks neither to damn nor to exonerate but to uncover the truth.

Veiled Desires

Author : Maureen Sabine
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823252116
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Veiled Desires written by Maureen Sabine and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Bergman’s engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary’s made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a “complete understanding” of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naïve? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires—a unique full-length, in-depth look at nuns in film—Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. Sabine provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns onscreen by showing how the films dramatize these women’s Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.

Mediating Memory

Author : Bunty Avieson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351606786
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Mediating Memory written by Bunty Avieson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. The Literature of Remembering: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of ethics, practice and innovation. By investigating memoir across cultural boundaries, in its various guises, and tracing its limits, the editors convincingly demonstrate the plurality of ways in which memoir is helping us make sense of who we are, who we were and the influences that shape us along the way.

Chick Flicks

Author : Suzanne Ferriss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135895945
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Chick Flicks written by Suzanne Ferriss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde, "chick flicks" have long been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. Like other forms of "chick culture," which the editors define as a group of mostly American and British popular culture media forms focused primarily on twenty- to thirtysomething, middle-class—and frequently college-educated—women, chick flicks have been accused of reinscribing traditional attitudes and reactionary roles for women. On the other hand, they have been embraced as pleasurable and potentially liberating entertainments, assisting women in negotiating the challenges of contemporary life. A companion to the successful anthology Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction, this edited volume consists of 11 original essays, prefaced by an introduction situating chick flicks within the larger context of chick culture as well as women’s cinema. The essays consider chick flicks from a variety of angles, touching on issues of film history, female sexuality (heterosexual and homosexual), femininity, female friendship, age, race, ethnicity, class, consumerism, spectatorship, pleasure and gender definition. An afterword by feminist film theorist Karen Hollinger considers the chick flick’s transformation from the woman’s films of the ’40s to the friendship films of the ’80s and those of the "return to the classics" trend of the ’90s, while highlighting the value of the volume’s contributions to contemporary debates and sketching possibilities for further study.

Prayer Wasn't Enough

Author : A. D. (Dee) Ready
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948793001
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Prayer Wasn't Enough written by A. D. (Dee) Ready and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contested identities

Author : Carmen M. Mangion
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526135280
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Contested identities written by Carmen M. Mangion and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Roman Catholic women’s congregations are an enigma of nineteenth-century social history. Over ten thousand nuns and sisters, establishing and managing significant Catholic educational, health care and social welfare institutions in England and Wales, have virtually disappeared from history. Despite their exclusion from historical texts, these women featured prominently in the public and private sphere. Intertwining the complexities of class with the notion of ethnicity, Contested identities examines the relationship between English and Irish-born sisters. This study is relevant not only to understanding women religious and Catholicism in nineteenth-century England and Wales, but also to our understanding of the role of women in the public and private sphere, dealing with issues still resonant today. Contributing to the larger story of the agency of nineteenth-century women and the broader transformation of English society, this book will appeal to scholars and students of social, cultural, gender and religious history.

Through the Narrow Gate

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368335
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Through the Narrow Gate written by Karen Armstrong and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The precursor to the bestselling The Spiral Staircase comes Karen Armstrong’s classic memoir of her life as a young woman in a convent. Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With honesty and clarity, she explains what drove her at age seventeen to devote herself to God. Over the next seven years, she endures the difficulties of convent life—the enforced silence, the lack of friendship and family, her own guilt at not being able to stifle her voracious intelligence—and unveils the secrets of religious life during the post–Vatican II years. Through the Narrow Gate is a moving account of a young woman’s search for God and the experiences that put Karen Armstrong on her way to becoming one of the most admired and most respected interpreters of religious faith.

Nun

Author : Mary Gilligan Wong
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Nun written by Mary Gilligan Wong and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1983 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many Catholic girls prior to Vatican II, Mary wanted to be a nun. Ecstatic at her acceptance into a teaching order, she began the period of intense training called "formation," learning the virtues prescribed by a 19th-century, male-dominated Church: humility, self-abnegation, and childlike dependence on the will of her superiors. What happens to a normal 14-year-old girl, giggly and interested in boys, who adores her family yet feels compelled to commit herself to a life that will demand that she never again visit her parents' home? And what leads Mary, "formed" and on mission, to make the decision not to take her final vows? Here, the author invites the reader to enter the world of the young woman who made that journey, to wander the cloistered halls of the convent and experience from the inside the workings of cloistered minds and hearts. Mary Wong interviewed forty former nuns about the experience of convent life, interweaving their stories with hers in a candid, funny, deeply moving account of her training and adventures, and of the beliefs and doubts that persevere.--From publisher description.

Rock Me Gently

Author : Judith Kelly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408806908
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Rock Me Gently written by Judith Kelly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing and moving memoir about childhood and coming to terms with the past 'Simple yet shocking ... Sad and disturbing, it's unexpectedly uplifting too' Elle 'A searing account of the emotional and physical cruelty meted out at the orphanage' Sunday Times In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. But far from being cared for, Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotional and sexual abuse was the daily norm and the children's lives were reduced to stark survival. As the months became years and no word came from her mother, she sought comfort from the girls around her, and especially the bright, angel-voiced Frances. When a tragic accident robbed Judith of her dearest friend, the memories were too traumatic to confront. It was not until years later, on a Kibbutz in Israel, that a friendship with an elderly Holocaust survivor gave Judith the strength to revisit her past - and the orphanage of her broken childhood.

Memoir

Author : Charles Wentworth Dilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Memoir written by Charles Wentworth Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoir of Mother Mary Rose Columba Adams, O.P.

Author : William Robert Brownlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoir of Mother Mary Rose Columba Adams, O.P. written by William Robert Brownlow and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Papers of a Critic: Memoir. Pope's writings. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Swift, &c

Author : Charles Wentworth Dilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Papers of a Critic: Memoir. Pope's writings. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Swift, &c written by Charles Wentworth Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Unquenchable Thirst

Author : Mary Johnson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459620119
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book An Unquenchable Thirst written by Mary Johnson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At seventeen, Mary Johnson saw a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of TIME magazine, and experienced her calling. Eighteen months later she entered a convent in the South Bronx, to begin her religious training. Not without difficulty, this boisterous, independent-minded teenager eventually adapted to the sisters' austere life of poverty and devotion, but beneath the white-and-blue sari an ordinary woman faced the struggles we all share, with the desires of love and connection, meaning and identity. During her years as a Missionary of Charity, Mary Johnson rose quickly through the ranks and came to work alongside Mother Teresa. Mary grapped with her faith, her desires for intimacy, the politics of the order and her complicated relationship with Mother Teresa. Finally, she made the hard, life-changing decision to leave the order to find her own path, and eventually to leave the Church altogether. The story of this compellingly honest woman will speak to anyone who has ever grappled with the mysteries and wonders of life and faith.

Lesbian Nuns

Author : Nancy Manahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935226635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Nuns written by Nancy Manahan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition includes a new foreword that looks at the impact the original edition had on both the lesbian and the mainstream cultures. The authors have added individual afterwords, describing how their lives were changed when their book went mainstream.

Out of the Habit

Author : Shirley McCann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467974356
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Habit written by Shirley McCann and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Habit is a memoir which portrays a lifestyle during the early 1940's that is no longer lived. The book chronicles a young girl of fifteen through her journey to become a professed nun in a semi-cloistered religious order. It reveals the fascinating joys and challenges to join, live, love, and yet ultimately leave this unique way of life. The details of stepping back into the secular world, after having exposed only her face and hands for over ten years, is comparable to Rip Van Winkle's awakening.The book is a truthful, first-hand account of thirteen incredible years of the author's life. It is not a bashing of Catholicism. Rather, it is a warm, sometimes appreciative and sometimes critical glimpse into the customs, discipline, and social mores of the lost world of the traditional Catholic Church. The book's accuracy and colorful detail hold appeal to both the curious and the scholarly.

Once Upon a Convent

Author : Orice Klaas
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514175705
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Convent written by Orice Klaas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fifteen year old girl enters a convent during the mid-nineteen fifties, when nuns still wear traditional habits and are physically and emotionally removed from the rest of the world. Subjected to rigid programming that includes almost perpetual silence and nearly total social isolation from her fellow community members, the young nun believes that God has called her and stays there for nineteen years. She eventually finds liberation and clarity through an unexpected sexual awakening with another woman. The manner in which she resolves the conflict this causes between her spiritual and human needs leads her to a new future.