Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States
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Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States

Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance

  1. 335 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States

Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance

About this book

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 scandals. 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I: Ethos within Women’s Religious Orders: Part I
  10. Chapter 1: “If We Are Always Your Cherished Daughters”: Ethos, Parrhesia, and Two Nineteenth-Century European American Catholic Sisters
  11. Chapter 2: Remembering Mother McAuley: Epideictic Rhetoric, Ethos, and Memory
  12. Chapter 3: The Habits and Dwelling Places of Sisters of Color: The New Orleans’ Soeurs de Sainte-Famille’s Reconstruction of Ethos
  13. Chapter 4: Corporeal, Confrontational Resistance: The Embodied Rhetoric of the Sisters of Loretto
  14. Part II: Intersections of Lay and Clergy: Part II
  15. Chapter 5: Who Owns This Church?: Feminist Methods of Protest and Lay Catholic Activism
  16. Chapter 6: Clergy Sex Abuse Scandals and the (Re)Making of Good Catholic Mothers
  17. Chapter 7: Ethos as Presence in Lay Catholic Women’s Rhetorics of Accountability
  18. Part III: Catholic Lay Women’s Ethos: Part III
  19. Chapter 8: “A Leader and a Lady”: Catholic Women’s Use of Business Writing to Create an Ethos of Professionalism and Catholic Lay Womanhood
  20. Chapter 9: Mary Daly’s Radical Ethos as Epistemic Voyage
  21. Chapter 10: Metanoic Faith: Living Rhetorically in Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness
  22. Chapter 11: Word and Deed: Dolores Huerta, Chicana Feminism, and a Zurdo Ethos of Faith in Action
  23. Part IV: Women Religious’ Negotiations of Ethos: Part IV
  24. Chapter 12: Sister Miriam Joseph’s Rhetorical Advocacy: The Trivium and Renaissance Rhetoric at St. Mary’s College, 1931–1960
  25. Chapter 13: “Holiness Is Not for Wimps”: The Rhetoric of Mother Angelica
  26. Chapter 14: A Time to Be Queer: Challenging the Rhetoric of Acceptance through the Works of Sister Joan Chittister
  27. Chapter 15: Standing in the Eye of the Storm: The Eternal Habits of U.S. Women Religious
  28. Index
  29. About the Contributors