Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Autorentext

Christopher Flavin is associate professor of English and chair of the department of languages and literature at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.

Klappentext

Examining texts from the beginning of the Christian era through the Renaissance, the author demonstrates that the performative role of women writers is critical to understanding the place of the individual in the broader Catholic intellectual tradition in the Anglophone world.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter One: Women Writing or Writing About Women

Chapter Two: (En) Gendering Texts: The Establishment of Women's Christian Literary Traditions

Chapter Three: Perpetua and Her Daughters: Mystics, Mothers, Martyrs, and Texts

Chapter Four: Constructing a New Self: Women, Truth, and the Rhetorical Turn of the Twelfth Century

Chapter Five: Heloise and the Rhetoric of the Self

Chapter Six: "Texts Without Bodies, Churches Without Windows": Affective Piety in Women's Autobiographies

Chapter Seven: Reinvigorating the Traditions: St. Teresa and the Reformation