Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.
Contents:
Preface: A tale about hope, courage, and saints -- Introduction: Fire and gas: women saints over five centuries -- La Fabbrica dei Santi: how politics and culture determine who is a saint -- Political saints and saintly politics: Joan of Arc and Catherine of Siena -- "Holy anorexics": God, agency, women's bodies, and self-starvation in early colonial Spanish-America: Rose of Lima and Mariana of Quito -- Las Santas Criollas: Rosa de Lima, Mariana de Quito, and national identity in colonial Spanish-America -- Teresa of Avila: the love of God as source of authority -- Edith Stein: paradoxes of a Jewish saint -- Mystics of political resistance: Teresa of Avila's and Edith Stein's visions of womanhood -- Pain, loss, and psychological distress in Therese of Lisieux: the "little flower" who wanted to be a priest -- Doctors but not priests: women doctors in the Roman Catholic Church: Teresa, Catherine, Therese, and Hildegard -- North American saints: Cabrini, Seton, Drexel, Tekakwitha but no Black American saints.
Summary:
"In Women, Sainthood, and Power, Oliva M. Espin examines the life stories of several female saints within their respective cultural and historical contexts from the perspective of feminist psychology and gender politics in the Catholic church"-- Provided by publisher.
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