Gender identities in American Catholicism / Paula Kane, James Kenneally, Karen Kennelly, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kane, Paula M.

Kenneally, James J. (James Joseph), 1929-

Kennelly, Karen.

Series:

American Catholic identities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--United States--History--Sources.

Catholic Church.

Women in the Catholic Church--United States--History--Sources.

Women in the Catholic Church.

Church history.

History.

United States--Church history--Sources.

United States.

Catholic Church--United States.

Local Subjects:

Catholic Church--United States.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2001]

Summary:

A remarkable collection of primary documents illustrating evolving Catholic attitudes toward gender and sexuality. Gender Identities in American Catholicism contains over one hundred original documents that range temporally from the earliest days of American Catholicism to the present. These documents illustrate how gender is a prime determiner of social position in the church and in American society as a whole, and how changing attitudes to gender identities affect a community's self-understanding. These carefully selected texts show how gender issues were constructed in the past and how they are reconstructed in the midst of historical developments. What may surprise many readers are how male domination was subtly challenged long before such epochal events as women's suffrage and the feminist revolution occurred. Taken together, these texts show the plurality of American Catholic ideas about gender and the tension between competing attitudes.

Contents:

Part 1 Private Woman, Public Man

1. Mother Caroline Friess, S.S.N.D., Sisters Adapt to Convent Life in New York City, 1853 2

2. Sister Mary Ambrose, S.P., Sisters Make Themselves at Home in a New Parish, 1912 3

3. Sister Savina, First Impressions, Sisters of Divine Providence, Chicago, 1913 and 1919 5

4. A Chicago Pre-Cana Conference Outline, 1950 6

5. J. G. Shaw, The Poetry of Domesticity, 1952 8

6. Dr. Lydwine Van Kersbergen, New Rituals for an Expectant Mother, 1957 9

7. Katharine M. Byrne, Happy Little Wives and Mothers, 1956 10

8. Ethel Marbach, Ursuline's Idealism Opposes Feminism, 1964 13

9. Thomas E. Langer, "Are You Really in Love?" 1965 15

Part 2 Gender in Contexts: Family and Religious Life

10. Theodore Guerin, S.P., A Bishop-Superior Abuses His Authority, 1844 18

11. Caroline Friess, S.S.N.D., Nuns Assume Missionary Functions, 1850 20

12. Boniface Wimmer Asserts Authority over Benedictine Nuns, 1857 23

13. Mother Benedicta Riepp Defends Nuns' Autonomy, 1857 and 1859 25

14. Benedict A. Neithart, C.SS.P., German Redemptorists Find an Irish Nun's Leadership Intolerable, 1880 26

15. Austin Carroll, R.S.M., The Sisters of Mercy Seek Strength in Unity, 1874, 1879, 1883 27

16. F. M. de Zulueta, Manliness and Frequent Communion, 1912 29

17. Martin J. Scott, S.J., Nuns at the Gate of Heaven, 1919 31

18. Bill Morgan, Six Aren't Enough, 1953 32

19. Walter J. Imbiorski, Filling the Husband's Need, 1963 34

20. Kay Toy Fenner, American Catholic Dating Guidelines, 1963 35

21. Her Mother Tells How Cathy Became a Nun, 1964 37

22. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., Abandons Voile and Taffeta for Religious Life, 1908-1910 41

23. Thomas Lahey, C.S.C., Paratrooper in the Korean War, 1951 43

Part 3 Gender Role Models

24. Bernard O'Reilly, Adam the Head of the Race, 1881 46

25. George Deshon, Advice for Catholic Young Women, 1887 47

26. Rev. P. A. Von Doss, S.J., True Manliness, 1889 52

27. Thomas Harrison Cummings, The Knightly Ideal of Catholic Manliness, 1895 53

28. William Stang, Bishop of Fall River, Hearing Confessions of Women, 1897 54

29. Augustine Rossler, Inferiority of Body and Soul, 1914 56

30. Rev. F. X. Lasance, "Rest Content with the Position God Has Ordained," 1906 57

31. Rev. Joseph P. Conroy, S.J., On Sowing Wild Oats, 1915 59

32. Rev. T. C. Siekmann, Advice for Boys from a Priest, 1947 61

33. Rev. T. C. Siekmann, Advice to Girls from a Priest, 1948 67

34. Henrietta Hronek, The Single Woman, 1954 73

35. Ed Willock, Postwar Patriarchy, 1947 75

36. Alba Zizzamia, The Career Woman, 1968 78

37. Bishop J. L. Spalding, The Virgin Mother, 1882 81

38. Archbishop William O'Connell, On the Meaning of Mary, 1934 83

39. Marylike Code of Attire for Church and Other Sacred Places, 1960 84

40. Katherine Burton, Marylike Codes Are Prudish, 1955 85

41. Andrew M. Greeley, On the Femininity of God, 1977 88

42. Sheila Carney, R.S.M., Mary as Model for Collaboration, 1988 89

43. Elaine M. Prevallet, S.L., Incarnational Spirituality, 1988 91

44. Mary Gordon, Saints as Role Models, 1991 92

Part 4 Gender and Social Reform

45. Sallie A. Moore, Women and the Catholic Total Abstinence Society, 1890 96

46. A. A. McGinley, An Appeal to Convent School Graduates, 1900 98

47. Mary Agnes Amberg, Madonna Center: Pioneer Catholic Social Settlement, ca. 1913 100

48. Dorothy Day, Men and Women Differing and Complementing, 1968 101

49. Catherine de Hueck, "Living with Negroes," 1947 103

50. Marguerite T. Boylan, The Departure Ceremony, 1919 105

51. Dorothy Day, Our Country Passes into Declared War; We Continue Our Christian Pacifist Stand, 1942 106

52. Elizabeth McAlister, The Pilgrimage to Resistance, 1983 108

53. Sr. Thomas Marguerite Flanigan, C.S.J., Nuns at Selma, 1965 111

54. Moral Issues Might Mean Going to Jail, 1986 114

55. Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Would Jesus Pull the Switch? 1997 115

Part 5 Education and Gendering

56. Nuns Reconsider Restrictions against Teaching Boys, ca. 1880-91 120

57. Contract Negotiations for Parochial Schools, 1867 120

58. Mary Francis Clare Cusack, S.S.S.J., Let Women Be Educated Carefully, with a Sense of Their Future Power and Influence, 1874 122

59. George Deshon, Learning for Girls, 1897 125

60. Jeanne Marie Bonnett, C.S.J., What and How Women Should Be Taught, 1932 127

61. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., Why We Educate Our Daughters, 1961 127

62. Bolen Carter and Anne Carter, The Cana Conference: Lay Initiative vs. Gender Traditionalism, 1951 131

Part 6 Making a Living: the Gendering of Work

63. Leonora Barry Lake, No God for the Poor? 1894 136

64. Caroline Friess, S.S.N.D., Tending Cholera Victims, 1856 138

65. Sisters Nursing Civil War Soldiers, 1862-65 139

66. Ignatius Sumner, R.S.M., Angels of Mercy at Battle of Vicksburg, 1863 141

67. M. Austin Carroll, R.S.M., Yellow Fever Outbreaks, 1878-82 145

68. Women Obey Men, The Natural Order of Things, 1877 147

69. George Deshon, Advice for Catholic Working Girls, 1897 149

70. Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Mothers Should Teach Independence, 1894 150

71. Mother Mary Jones, Testimony to the U.S. Senate, Commission on Industrial Relations, 1916 152

72. Margaret A. Haley, Should Teachers Form a Union? 1902 154

73. Antonius Kennelly, C.S.J., A Sister-Scientist Shatters Stereotypes, 1929 156

74. Abigail McCarthy, Inspirational Nuns, 1972 158

75. George Jaegen, Send Me Motherly Sisters, 1926 159

76. Evelyn B. Coogan, Ladies of the Lathe and Torch, 1943 160

77. Captain Louise Edna Goeden, Character Building in the Women's Army Corps, 1943 162

78. Anne S. Hooley, Catholic Women and the Defense Effort, 1942 165

79. Barbara L. Baer and Glenna Matthews, Women for Justice in the California Grape Fields, 1974 167

80. Barbara Mikulski, Women's Ambivalence to the Women's Movement, 1976 168

81. The Bishops Speak on Women and Poverty, 1986 171

Part 7 The Impact of Vatican II on Gender Roles

82. Mary Elsbernd, O.S.F., and Marilyn Thie, S.C., Nuns Experience a New Sense of Identity as Women, 1988 173

83. Anne Clifford, C.S.J., Nuns Identify Mission as Integral to Their Identity, 1988 175

84. Joan Chittister, O.S.B., A Benedictine Sister Reconsiders Her Vocation, 1985 177

85. CORPUS Statement of Purpose, A Married Priesthood? 1998 181

86. Elizabeth Carroll, R.S.M., Vatican II's Call for Renewal Revolutionizes Religious Life, 1985 184

Part 8 The Sexual Politics of Abortion and Birth Control

87. Joseph V. Nevins, The Duties of Confessors in Regard to Contraception, 1928 190

88. Elizabeth A. Daughterty, A Woman Criticizes the Church's View of Sex, 1964 191

89. Robert McClory, The Papal Commission and Women on the Rhythm Method of Birth Control, 1995 194

90. Sisters Ferraro and Hussey, Statement on an Abortion Advertisement, 1986 196

91. Sister Agnes Mansour Forced to Leave the Sisters of Mercy, 1983 198

92. Frances Kissling, Catholics and the Right to Abortion, 1989 199

93. Geraldine Ferraro, A Catholic Woman Politician's Saga, 1985 201

Part 9 Gender and Politics

94. Madeline V. Dahlgren, The Case against Women's Suffrage, 1871 209

95. Mary A. Dowd, Saving the Home, 1894 209

96. Kate Barnard, A Woman Seeks Social Reform in Oklahoma, 1912 211

97. Forced Feeding of Suffragette Lucy Burns, ca. 1919 213

98. A Pastoral Letter on the Vocation of Women in Public Affairs, 1919 214

99. A. J. Reilly, Catholic Women as Citizens and Leaders, 1927 215

100. National Council of Catholic Women Opposes Equal Rights Amendment, 1938 219

101. Dorothy Shipley Granger, In the Footsteps of Joan of Arc, 1943 220

102. Dorothy Shipley Granger, The Need for Catholics of Courage, 1944 221

103. Dorothy Shipley Granger, Equal Rights Amendment Belongs in the Democratic Platform, 1944 222

104. John B.

Sheerin, C.S.P., No Need for Feminism, 1953 223

105. Clare Boothe Luce, Abortion Proponents Endanger the Equal Rights Amendment, 1978 228

106. Confirmation Hearings for Margaret Heckler, 1983 230

107. Phyllis Schlafly Interviewed in Ms Magazine by Henry Schipper, 1982 232

Part 10 Alternate Gender Identities

108. Sister Agatha, Reconciling Sexual Orientation with Religious Vows, 1985 236

109. A Pastoral Approach to Homosexuality from the American Bishops, 1998 239

110. Jeannine Gramick, S.S.N.D., A Sister Cofounds a New Ministry, 1985 241

111. Dignity USA, Statement of Position and Purpose, 2000 245

112. Archbishop John Quinn, A Pastoral Letter on Homosexuality, 1980 247

113. San Francisco Gays and Lesbians React to the Church's Teaching on Homosexuality, 1982 248

114. The Joseph Foundation, a Catholic Men's Movement, 2000 250

Part 11 Strategies of Resistance and Reaction

115. Lora Ann Quinonez, C.D.P., and Mary Daniel Turner, S.N.D. de N., Women Religious Struggle over Post-Vatican II Leadership Models, 1992 256

116. Rosemary Radford Ruether, WomanChurch Calls Men to Flee Patriarchy, 1984 260

117. Mary Daly, A Feminist Postchristian Revisits Herself, 1985 262

118. Helen Hull Hitchcock, Traditionalists Respond: Women for Faith and Family, 1984 267

119. Sisters of Loretto Discover Their Mission Culture, 1970-82 269

120. Sr. Mary Anthony Wagner, O.S.B., The Ordination of Women, 1975 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1570753601

1570753504

OCLC:

46694242