Full Description
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance
Elizabethada A. Wright
Part I: Ethos within Women's Religious Orders
Chapter One: 'If we are always your cherished daughters': Ethos, Parrhesia, and Two Nineteenth-Century European-American Catholic Sisters
Elizabethada A. Wright
Chapter Two: Remembering Mother McAuley: Epideictic Rhetoric, Ethos, and Memory
Amy Ferdinandt Stolley
Chapter Three: The Habits and Dwelling Places of Sisters of Color: The New Orleans' Soeurs de Sainte-Famille's Reconstruction of Ethos
Elizabethada A. Wright and Christiana Ares-Christian
Chapter Four: Corporeal, Confrontational Resistance: The Embodied Rhetoric of the Sisters of Loretto
Shana Scudder
Part II: Intersections of Lay and Clergy
Chapter Five: Who Owns This Church? Feminist Methods of Protest and Lay Catholic Activism
Laura J. Panning Davies
Chapter Six: Clergy Sex Abuse Scandals and the (Re)Making of Good Catholic Mothers
Allison Niebauer and Elisa Vogel
