Unconventional sisterhood : feminist Catholic nuns in the Philippines / Heather L. Claussen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claussen, Heather L., 1968- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.

Southeast Asia: politics, meaning, memory.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missionary Benedictine Sisters--Philippines.

Missionary Benedictine Sisters.

Philippines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.

Summary:

"Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, religious responsibility, and national identity in the context of a rapidly globalizing nation. And, unlike the popular stereotypes of staid sisters cloaked in rigid religious dogmatism, they are doing so by telling jokes, engaging in eclectic religious rituals, maintaining connections with a local nationalist cult, and committing themselves to a radical - and feminist - politics."--Jacket

Contents:

Prolegomenon: First, a Word

1. Sign Me Sister, OSB

2. What Makes a Woman?

3. The Making of the Missionary Benedictines

4. Unggoy Formation

5. Reclaiming Philippine Faith as Feminist Practice

6. The Woman Question

7. Filipina Feminism(s) Revisited.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780472904266

0472904264

OCLC:

1584466376

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04442 hdl