Recovering Their Stories

Nicholas K. Rademacher (Edited By) Nicholas K. Rademacher is professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Dayton. He is co-editor of the journal American Catholic Studies and author of Paul Hanly Furfey: Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer (Fordham, 2017).Sandra Yocum (Edited By) Sandra Yocum is University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton. Her publications have addressed a wide range of topics in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century US Catholicism, including papal authority, clergy sexual abuse, intellectual life, theological education, historiography, and spirituality.

• IntroductionNicholas K. Rademacher and Sandra Yocum 1"Pray for good sounds": Black Catholic Practice, Friendship,and Irreverence in the Intimate Correspondence of Mary Lou WilliamsVaughn A. Booker 9Nina Polcyn: Living Art and Women's Leadership at St. Benet's BookstoreBrian J. Clites 37Lucy Looks Twice: The Agency of Lay Lakota Catholic Women, and the Legacy of Nicholas Black ElkDamian Costello 61Dolores Huerta Haciendo Más Caras: Navigating a Catholic World Not Scripted for HerNeomi De Anda 71Catholic Laywomen's Natural Family Planning across Three GenerationsKatherine Dugan 98Our Lady of the Liturgical Movement?Rejecting and Reclaiming Marian Devotion by American Catholic LaywomenKatharine E. Harmon 116The Catholic Novel: Book Reviews in Katherine Burton's 'Woman to Woman' Columns, 1933–1942Annie Huey 139"We Are Not Here to Convict but to Convince":A Catholic Laywoman's Witness to Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century PhiladelphiaMaureen H. O'Connell 160Laywomen as Church Patrons: Clare Boothe Luce,Marguerite Brunswig Staude, and Dominique de MenilCatherine R. Osborne 186The Road to Friendship House: Ellen Tarry and Ann HarriganDiscern an Interracial Vocation in the US Catholic LandscapeNicholas K. Rademacher 206From Grailville to the Universe:How the Grail Movement Widened the Possibilities for American Catholic LaywomenMarian Ronan 229Laywomen Enacting the Mystical BodySandra Yocum 250Acknowledgments 271List of Contributors 273Index 275