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"This book develops a new methodological framework for analysing the power, participation, and identity of women in patriarchal religious institutions. It theorises the harm women experience in Catholicism as a quotidian form of gendered violence, and conceptualises and defines "everyday spiritual abuse". The book also critically examines how women negotiate and subvert hegemonic systems of power and knowledge in Catholicism through an in-depth exploration of the lived identities and experiences of Gen X women in Australia"--
1: Introduction -- 2: Identity and authority -- 3: Magisterial ecclesiology: Virgin, bride, mother -- 4: Theorising power/knowledge for a feminist study of women in Catholicism -- 5: Invented identities -- 6: Enacting agency -- 7: The consequences of a lack of recognisability -- 8: A place where Catholic women might flourish -- Afterword -- References -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
Bloomsbury studies in religion, gender, and sexuality ; vol. 9
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025