Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States
Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance
Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States
Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance
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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793636218
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 28/01/2022
Width: 16.1 cm
Height: 22.8 cm
Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance examines the rhetoric of Roman Catholic women. Focusing on women in the United States, the books recognizes that most Catholic women have felt—and been--marginalized by the Church, yet many women still seek membership in the Church because of its professed ideals. 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 scandal as they redefined what it means to be a “good Catholic mother.” 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.
Landmark studies do not belie this volume's thesis that the rhetorical activities of Roman Catholic women have been largely neglected: either they are voiceless nonentities under the Church's (male) thumb; or anything interesting about their rhetoric can be isolated from their faith commitments. But here, contemporary theories of ecologically defined ethos reveal Catholic women's deployment of rich rhetorical resources in studies of women's religious orders, laywomen's activism, leadership by figures such as Mary Daly and Dolores Huerta, and the dynamic public ethos of Mother Angelica and Sister Joan Chittister, among others. When the rhetorical activities of other marginalized groups have been analyzed, important insights have emerged for the entire field, not only for members of those groups, and scholars will find the same broad significance in this volume. I know I did! -- Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross Catholic Women's Rhetoric is a groundbreaking collection exploring neglected topics in the history of rhetorical education and religious activism in the United States. These challenging essays provide significant insights into the institutional roles played by women in the public sphere, especially the accomplishments of female religious orders. As a whole, the volume demonstrates the power of feminist rhetorical scholarship to reveal the enabling conditions of historical agency for lay and religious Catholic women, the patriarchal constraints overcome, and the active resistances achieved. Scholars in all the humanistic disciplines will find this collection to be a rich resource for thinking about rhetorical practices in religious and political contexts, especially the negotiations and deployments of ethos, individual and collective. -- Steven Mailloux, President's Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University
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