Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States
Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance
Abstract
Building on various feminist theories of ethos, the authors in this collection explore how North American Catholic women from various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes have used elements of the group’s positionality to make change. The women considered in the book range from the earliest Catholic sisters who arrived in the United States to women who held the Church hierarchy accountable for the sexual abuse scandals. The book analyzes women such as those in an African American order who developed an ethos that would resist racism. Chapters also consider better known Catholic women such as Dolores Huertas, Mary Daly, and Joan Chittister.
Schlagworte
Clergy Sex Abuse Cultural Change Embodied Rhetoric Epideictic Rhetoric Female Discourse Female Experience Nun Parrhesia Women Religious- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- i–viii Contents i–viii
- ix–x Acknowledgments ix–x
- 1–22 Introduction 1–22
- 311–320 Index 311–320
- 321–324 About the Contributors 321–324