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Unconventional sisterhood : feminist Catholic nuns in the Philippines /
"Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, religious responsibility, and national identity in the context of a rapidly globalizing nation. And, unlike the popular...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, religious responsibility, and national identity in the context of a rapidly globalizing nation. And, unlike the popular stereotypes of staid sisters cloaked in rigid religious dogmatism, they are doing so by telling jokes, engaging in eclectic religious rituals, maintaining connections with a local nationalist cult, and committing themselves to a radical - and feminist - politics."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472904266 0472904264 |