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Unconventional women : the story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia / Sarah Gilbert.
Van Pelt Library BX4281.Z5 A877 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilbert, Sarah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Servants of the Blessed Sacrament--History.
- Servants of the Blessed Sacrament.
- Catholic Church--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Nuns--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--History.
- Nuns.
- Nuns--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--Biography.
- Monasticism and religious orders for women--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--History.
- Monasticism and religious orders for women.
- Melbourne (Vic.)--Church history.
- Melbourne (Vic.).
- Catholic Church--History.
- Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
- Victoria--Melbourne.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Church history
- History
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- paper
- 23.4 x 15.3 cm
- synthetic
- printing
- cover single sided
- text block double sided
- plates double sided
- perfect binding
- positive
- illustration
- portrait
- monochrome
- polychrome
- Manufacture:
- Australia : McPherson's Printing Group, [2024]
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior. By the late 1960s, this community of women was upended by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, and by the changing times. Their convent threw open its doors on a new world and the women wanted to be part of it. The personal accounts of the six nuns and ex-nuns in Unconventional Women are unusually candid, giving a rare insight into the world of the convent, and exploring their changing relationship with both God and one another." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Beginnings
- Vocations
- Through the convent door
- Fresh air: Vatican II and the struggle at the convent
- Smashing through the Grille
- Antoher face of Christ: the move to Newtown
- Different directions
- Endings, 2019.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780522880397
- 0522880398
- OCLC:
- 1417752916
- Publisher Number:
- 99996712221
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