Women In Catholic Higher Education
Women in Catholic Higher Education: Border Work, Living Experiences, and Social Justice examines the contemporary contradictions and tensions faced by women who teach and work in Catholic institutions of higher learning. Delving into discourse traditionally silenced by the Catholic hierarchy, this edited collection observes the ways in which patriarchal structures often hinder women's advancement within these institutions. The contributors describe their own conflicts and successes in their...
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Delving into discourse traditionally silenced by the Catholic hierarchy, this edited collection observes the ways in which patriarchal structures often hinder women's advancement within Catholic institutions of higher learning. The contributors describe their own conflicts and successes in their attempts to negotiate their academic careers and personal lives in the context of the clash between secular and Catholic patriarchal values. The contributors suggest concrete steps toward social justice for women who teach and work in Catholic higher education.
Introduction1Pt. IFeminist Border Work: Tensions and Contradictions1'What Doesn't Kill You Will Make You Strong': Black Women and Catholic Colleges172Cultural Barriers Facing Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students at a Catholic College333Navigating Bi-cultural Waters59Pt. IILiving Experiences : Identity, Empowerment, and Action4Women in God's Country: Teaching Gender Studies at Saint Michael's College735Living the Experiences of a Feminist Faculty Member at a Catholic Institution896Walking on a Wire and Weaving a Safety Net: Women's Studies and Campus Administrative Offices1017No Sleep for the Lions: Women's Leadership in Catholic Higher Education109Pt. IIISocial Justice: The Ideal, the Reality, and the Quest8The Imposter Phenomenon and Women in Theology1239Ex Corde: Constraint or Window of Opportunity?13510Mission and Ministry of American Catholic Colleges and Universities for the Next Century: Vocation and Dialogic Models for Social Justice145Conclusion: Strife and Synthesis: Women and Women's Studies in Catholic Higher Education161Index181About the Contributors185About the Editors187
\ American Catholic StudiesThis book deserves a place in the library of any Catholic institution of higher education both as living history and as a rebuke and reminder.\ \ \ \ \ Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and PracticeThis is a good book, some of it downright bold. Readers will be challenged, provoked even, into thinking more deeply about issues.\ \ \ Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and PracticeThis is a good book, some of it downright bold. Readers will be challenged, provoked even, into thinking more deeply about issues.\ \
