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Humble Women, Powerful Nuns

- A Female Struggle for Autonomy in a Men's Church
Engelsk Paperback

Humble Women, Powerful Nuns

- A Female Struggle for Autonomy in a Men's Church
Engelsk Paperback

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The fascinating story of four ambitious Belgian religious women in a male world

Nineteenth-century female congregation founders could achieve levels of autonomy, power and prestige that were beyond reach for most women of their time. This book recounts the fascinating but ambiguous life stories of four Belgian religious women, hidden for a long time behind a curtain of modesty and mystery. A close reading of their personal writings unveils their conflicted existence: ambitious, socially committed, and audacious on the one hand, suffering, isolated, and dependent on men on the other, they were both victims and promotors of a nineteenth-century ideal of female submission. As religious and social entrepreneurs these women played an influential role in the revival of the Church and the development of education, health care and social provisions in modern Belgium. But, equally well, they were bound to rigid gender patterns and adherents of an ultramontane church ideology that fundamentally distrusted modern society.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).


Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9789462702271
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9462702276
Udg. Dato:
22 jul 2020
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
171mm
Forlag:
Leuven University Press
Oplagsdato:
22 jul 2020
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