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Visual habits : nuns, feminism, and American postwar popular culture /

"The 1950s and 1960s were times of extraordinary social and political change that redrew 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 experimented with thei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sullivan, Rebecca, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.