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Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Inventing Women

Av Christopher M. Flavin

Del i serien Studies in Medieval Literature

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

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Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition: Inventing Women takes the "Catholic Tradition" to a new level. It is a nuanced and critical assessment of women's identities that were often shaped by men, within patriarchal structures, and yet, driven by outstanding women far beyond existing norms. Christopher Flavin engages with narratives on and of women like Perpetua in the second century to Teresa of Ávila in the 16th. Without falling into postmodern traps, the book insists on the communal aspect and the impact these women had on experiencing faith in novel ways. Methodologically too, this is innovative and stimulating reading.

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