Unconventional Sisterhood : Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines /

"Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, religious responsibility, and national identity in the context of a rapidly globalizing nation. And, unlike the popular...

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Main Author: Claussen, Heather L., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prolegomenon: First, a Word
  • 1. Sign Me Sister, OSB
  • 2. What Makes a Woman?
  • 3. The Making of the Missionary Benedictines
  • 4. Unggoy Formation
  • 5. Reclaiming Philippine Faith as Feminist Practice
  • 6. The Woman Question
  • 7. Filipina Feminism(s) Revisited.