New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge To Traditional Religious Authority

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Weaver addresses the historical context, theological response, and contemporary experience of nuns, laywomen, theologians, and women in the pew who struggle in an ecclesiastical community that energetically opposes feminism. She examines the new feminist consciousness of some Catholic women; women's roles in the parish; the relationship of women's religious orders to the women's movement; women's ordination; Roman Catholic feminist theologians; and feminist spirituality. Weaver has added a new introduction addressing the current realities of a conservative Papacy and Church. "Weaver fills an important gap in women's studies through herinvestigation of the intersection of the women's movement with the lives ofcontemporary Roman Catholic women." -- Iris "Mary JoWeaver has charted the course of this new consciousness among Roman Catholicwomen." -- Rosemary Radford Ruether "This is the firstfull-scale study of how the U.S. women's movement has intersected with the lives andaspirations of American Roman Catholic women."? -- Elizabeth Johnson, ReligiousStudies Review

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