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Graceful exits : Catholic women and the art of departure / Debra Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Debra, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic women--Biography--History and criticism.
- Catholic women.
- Ex-church members--Catholic Church--Biography--History and criticism.
- Ex-church members.
- Ex-nuns--Biography--History and criticism.
- Ex-nuns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The personal narratives of nine 20th-century Catholic female authors -- Monica Baldwin, Antonia White, Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon, Mary Daly, Barbara Ferraro, Patricia Hussey, Karen Armstrong, and Patricia Hampl -- speak eloquently about the process of departure from the church and its institutions. This study explores each author's breaking of the taboo associated with women leaving their ""proper place."" It locates five themes at the heart of all of their narratives: reversal, boundary crossing, dia
- Contents:
- I leap over the wall
- Falling away or crossing over?
- Be-ing is be/leaving
- A nun forever
- Coming home.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07145-9
- 9786612071454
- 0-253-11071-8
- OCLC:
- 475949511
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