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Resisting Orders : Catholic Sisters Contest Their Church.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gervais, Christine.
- Series:
- Advancing Studies in Religion Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Resisting Orders untangles the power and resistance of Catholic sisters in the ongoing colonial and hierarchical context of the Roman Catholic Church, making space for the nuanced perspectives of Catholic women religious to break through.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Resisting Repression in Foreign Missions
- 2 Advocating Social Justice
- 3 Taking Feminist Positions
- 4 Critiquing the Criminalization of Women’s Ordination
- 5 Denouncing Clerical Abuse against Children and Women
- 6 Supporting Women’s Reproductive Justice
- 7 (Re)Negotiating Celibacy and (Re)Considering Sexuality
- 8 Resisting Compulsory Heterosexuality
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780228025023
- 0228025028
- OCLC:
- 1513420988
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