The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Female as Flesh in the Later Middle Ages and the “Bodily Knowing” of Angela of Foligno

Chapter 3 “I Grab the Microphone and Move My Body”— Volatile Speech, Volatile Bodies, and the Church’s Attempt to Measure Holiness

Chapter 4 Letters from the Convent: St. Teresa of Ávila’s Epistolary Mode

Chapter 5 Talking out of Church: Women Arguing Theology in Sor Juana’s loa to the Divino Narciso

Chapter 6 Angela Carranza, Would-Be Theologian

Chapter 7 Resituating Carvajal’s Vida in Protonovelistic Narratives

Chapter 8 Through the Grate; Or, English Convents and the Transmission and Preservation of Female Catholic Recusant History

Chapter 9 “Must Her Own Words Do All?”: Domesticity, Catholicism, and Activism in Adelaide Anne Procter’s Poems

Chapter 10 The Legacy of Laveau in the Practice of Helen Prejean: The Tradition and Territory of New Orleans’ Spiritual Advisors

Chapter 11 “Reluctant Catholics”: Contemporary Irish-American Women Writers

Chapter 12 Marie-Claire Blais Revises John Keats: Sadean Moments and Anti-Catholic Sentiment in Une saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel

Chapter 13 Catholicism’s Other(ed) Holy Trinity: Race, Class, and Gender in Black Catholic Girl School Narratives

Chapter 14 Challenging Catholicism: Hagar vs. the Virgin in Graciela Limón’s The Memories of Ana Calderón

Chapter 15 Dis-robing the Priest: Gender and Spiritual Conversions in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse