Introduction -- Called / Sister Mary Monica -- Community life -- Called / Sister Maria Deo Gratias -- The claustrophobic nun -- Called / Sister Mary Michael -- Monastic living in a throwaway culture -- Called / Sister Mary Joseph -- Little house, big heart -- Called / Sister Mary Clara -- Mothers of souls -- Called / Sister Joan Marie -- The suffering servants -- Idealism and reality -- Called / Sister Ann Marie -- Erased from the landscape -- Called / Sister Mary Veronica.
Summary:
As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois.
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