Visual Habits : : Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture / / Rebecca Sullivan.
The 1950s and 60s were times of extraordinary social and political change across North America that re-drew the boundaries between traditional and progressive, conservative and liberal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of Catholic nuns. During these two decades, nuns boldly experime...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Gender, Religion, and Culture
- 1. Cracks in the Cloister: The Changing Cultural Role of Nuns
- 2. Celluloid Sisters: Nuns in Hollywood
- 3. Whose Story Is The Nun's Story?
- 4. Adventurous Souls: Vocation Books and Postwar Girl Culture
- 5. Sing Out, Sister! Sacred Music and the Feminized Folk Scene
- 6. Gidget Joins a Convent: Television Confronts the New Nuns
- Conclusion: The Return of the New Nuns
- Works Cited
- Credits
- Index