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Unruly Catholic Feminists

Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith

Unruly Catholic Feminists

Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith

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Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9781438485003
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 01/09/2021
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
A collection of creative pieces, Unruly Catholic Feminists explores how women are coming to terms with their feminism and Catholicism in the twenty-first century. Through short stories, poems, and personal essays, third- and fourth-wave feminists write about the issues, reforms, and potential for progress. Giving voice to many younger writers, the book includes a variety of geographic and ethnic points of view from which women write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future. While change in the church may be slow to come, even the promise of progress may provide hope for women struggling with the conflicts between their religion and their sense of their own spirituality. Rather than always only oppressing or containing women, Catholicism also drives or inspires many to challenge literary, social, political, or religious hierarchies. By examining how women attempt to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions and their future hopes and dreams, Unruly Catholic Feminists offers new perspectives on gender and religion today—and for the days yet to come.
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Introduction: Living with the Past, Envisioning the Future

Part I: Domestic and Global Social Justice

Mary
Elizabeth Brulé Farrell

You Don't Belong Here
Lauren Frances Guerra

Salt
Dawn Morais

Citizen Voices
Jennifer Hall Lee

Inundated
Dinorah Cortés-Vélez

A Person is a Person
Anonymous

My Better-Late-Than-Never Confirmation
Sofia Zocca

Let Us Pray Together
Julianne DiNenna

Part II: Sexuality and Motherhood

From the Womb of Christ
Pat Brisson

Feminism, Faith, and My Mother's Church
Valerie Wexler

Raising Valerie
Celia Viggo Wexler

Applying for Sainthood
Megan Merchant

Mystic Trinities
Kelly Hedglin Bowen

My Mary
Adrienne Keller

Losing My Religion
Anita Cabrera

The Enunciation
Devin E. Kuhn

Magdalene
Jeannine Marie Pitas

Transubstantiation
Maryanne Hannan

Our Hail Mary Pass
Devin E. Kuhn

Part III: Spiritual Activism and Utopian Vision

Not Faith
Jillian Egan

I Could Have Been a Psalmist
Pat Brisson

On Desire and Direction
Lindsey White

The Heretic
C. R. Resetarits

Unfinished
Marci Madary

La Llorona
Jeannine Marie Pitas

The Lydian Woman Speaks to the Dead Saint
Becky Gould Gibson

Summer Solstice
Teresa Delgado

She Will Rise
Lizzie Sextro

Notes on Contributors

Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, Ana Kothe

Jeana DelRosso is Sister Maura Eichner Endowed Professor of English and Professor of Women's Studies at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Leigh Eicke is a writer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ana Kothe is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Together, they are the coeditors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism and Unruly Catholic Nuns: Sisters' Stories, both also published by SUNY Press.

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