Christopher M. Flavin

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition (eBook, ePUB)

Inventing Women

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition examines the ways in which late classical medieval women's writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498592734
• Artikelnr.: 58436535

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Flavin is department chair and professor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Northeastern State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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