Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Inventing Women

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

1 639 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition examines the ways in which late classical medieval women’s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-01-08
Mått160 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Medieval Literature
Antal sidor204
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498592727

Tillhör följande kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skonlitteratur

IntroductionChapter One: Women Writing or Writing About WomenChapter Two: (En) Gendering Texts: The Establishment of Women’s Christian Literary TraditionsChapter Three: Perpetua and Her Daughters: Mystics, Mothers, Martyrs, and TextsChapter Four: Constructing a New Self: Women, Truth, and the Rhetorical Turn of the Twelfth CenturyChapter Five: Heloise and the Rhetoric of the SelfChapter Six: “Texts Without Bodies, Churches Without Windows”: Affective Piety in Women’s AutobiographiesChapter Seven: Reinvigorating the Traditions: St. Teresa and the Reformation

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition: Inventing Women takes the "Catholic Tradition" to a new level. It is a nuanced and critical assessment of women's identities that were often shaped by men, within patriarchal structures, and yet, driven by outstanding women far beyond existing norms. Christopher Flavin engages with narratives on and of women like Perpetua in the second century to Teresa of Ávila in the 16th. Without falling into postmodern traps, the book insists on the communal aspect and the impact these women had on experiencing faith in novel ways. Methodologically too, this is innovative and stimulating reading.