Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America

ISBN-13: 9780190881009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Cassandra L. Yacovazzi

Opis

On the eve of the Civil War, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu, a convent expose by a fraudulent "escaped nun" Maria Monk, captivated readers. The book served as a centerpiece for a larger campaign against convents, marked by riots, propaganda, and nativist politics, and reflected deep concerns regarding women, religious life, and the fate of the Republic.

Recenzje

Cassandra L. Yacovazzi's Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum America brilliantly traces the origins of anxieties about religious women to early convent captivity narratives that railed against deviations from a closely inscribed republican script of marriage and motherhood. This intriguing book convincingly demonstrates that nineteenth-century escaped nuns' tales forged a repressive template which, even today, fetters popular conceptions of Catholic religious women.

O autorze

Cassandra L. Yacovazzi is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on American cultural, religious, and gender history in the nineteenth century.