Unruly Catholic women writers through the centuries / Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe -- Pt. 1. Medieval through seventeenth century. Female as flesh in the later Middle Ages and the "bodily knowing" of Angela of Foligno / Jennifer Judge -- "I grab the microphone and move my body": volatile speech, volatile bodies, and the Church's attempt to measure holiness / M.C. Bodden -- Letters from the convent: St. Teresa of Ávila's epistolary mode / Joan F. Cammarata -- Talking out of church: women arguing theology in Sor Juana's loa to the Divino Narciso / Jeanne Gillespie -- Angela Carranza, would-be theologian / Stacey Schlau -- Resituating Carvajal's Vida in protonovelistic narratives / Ana Kothe -- pt. 2. Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through the grate, or, English convents and the transmission and preservation of female Catholic recusant history / Tonya Moutray McArthur -- "Must her own words do all?": domesticity, Catholicism, and activism in Adelaide Anne Procter's poems / Cheri Larsen Hoeckley -- The legacy of Laveau in the practice of Helen Prejean: the tradition and territory of New Orleans' spiritual advisors / Barbara Eckstein -- pt. 3. Twentieth and twenty-first centuries. "Reluctant Catholics": contemporary Irish-American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest -- Marie-Claire Blais revises John Keats: Sadean moments and anti-Catholic sentiment in Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel / Ben P. Robertson -- Catholicism's other(ed) Holy Trinity: race, class, and gender in black Catholic girl school narratives / Jeana DelRosso -- Challenging Catholicism: Hagar vs. the virgin in Graciela Limón's The memories of Ana Calderón / Mary Jane Suero-Elliott -- Dis-robing the priest: gender and spiritual conversions in Louise Erdrich's The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Pamela J. Rader.
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