In an important feminist study, Rosa Bruno-Jofre offers a sensitive and nuanced picture of how a women's organization, the Missionary Oblate Sisters, a bilingual teaching congregation in Manitoba, dealt with both the larger patriarchal structures and the differing views, traditions, and attitudes of Sisters from disparate French Canadian communities in Manitoba, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and the United States.Bruno-Jofre draws extensively from private archives and oral histories to bring to light the inner life of the congregation and their educational work. She demonstrates that the...