{"product_id":"catholic-women-s-rhetoric-in-the-united-states-ethos-the-patriarchy-and-feminist-resistance-9781793636218","title":"Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance examines the rhetoric of Roman Catholic women. Focusing on women in the United States, the books recognizes that most Catholic women have felt—and been--marginalized by the Church, yet many women still seek membership in the Church because of its professed ideals. Building on various feminist theories of ethos, the authors in this collection explore how North American Catholic women from various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes have used elements of the group’s positionality to make change. The women considered in the book range from the earliest Catholic sisters who arrived in the United States to women who held the Church hierarchy accountable for the sexual abuse scandal as they redefined what it means to be a “good Catholic mother.” The book analyzes women such as those in an African-American order who developed an ethos that would resist racism. Chapters also consider better known Catholic women such as Dolores Huertas, Mary Daly, and Joan Chittister. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLandmark studies do not belie this volume’s thesis that the rhetorical activities of Roman Catholic women have been largely neglected: either they are voiceless nonentities under the Church’s (male) thumb; or anything interesting about their rhetoric can be isolated from their faith commitments. But here, contemporary theories of ecologically defined ethos reveal Catholic women’s deployment of rich rhetorical resources in studies of women’s religious orders, laywomen’s activism, leadership by figures such as Mary Daly and Dolores Huerta, and the dynamic public ethos of Mother Angelica and Sister Joan Chittister, among others. When the rhetorical activities of other marginalized groups have been analyzed, important insights have emerged for the entire field, not only for members of those groups, and scholars will find the same broad significance in this volume. I know I did!\u003c\/p\u003e -- Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatholic Women's Rhetoric is a groundbreaking collection exploring neglected topics in the history of rhetorical education and religious activism in the United States. These challenging essays provide significant insights into the institutional roles played by women in the public sphere, especially the accomplishments of female religious orders. As a whole, the volume demonstrates the power of feminist rhetorical scholarship to reveal the enabling conditions of historical agency for lay and religious Catholic women, the patriarchal constraints overcome, and the active resistances achieved. Scholars in all the humanistic disciplines will find this collection to be a rich resource for thinking about rhetorical practices in religious and political contexts, especially the negotiations and deployments of ethos, individual and collective. \u003c\/p\u003e -- Steven Mailloux, President's Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabethada A. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Ethos within Women’s Religious Orders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: ‘If we are always your cherished daughters’: Ethos, Parrhesia, and Two Nineteenth-Century European-American Catholic Sisters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabethada A. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Remembering Mother McAuley: Epideictic Rhetoric, Ethos, and Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Ferdinandt Stolley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: The Habits and Dwelling Places of Sisters of Color: The New Orleans’ Soeurs de Sainte-Famille’s Reconstruction of Ethos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabethada A. Wright and Christiana Ares-Christian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Corporeal, Confrontational Resistance: The Embodied Rhetoric of the Sisters of Loretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShana Scudder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Intersections of Lay and Clergy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Who Owns This Church? Feminist Methods of Protest and Lay Catholic Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura J. Panning Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Clergy Sex Abuse Scandals and the (Re)Making of Good Catholic Mothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllison Niebauer and Elisa Vogel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Ethos as Presence in Lay Catholic Women’s Rhetorics of Accountability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie White-Farnham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Catholic Lay Women’s Ethos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: A Leader and a Lady: Catholic Women’s Use of Business Writing to Create an Ethos of Professionalism and Catholic Lay Womanhood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Crosby Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Mary Daly’s Radical Ethos as Epistemic Voyage \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulianna Edmonds \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Metanoic Faith: Living Rhetorically in Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJimmy Hamill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Word and Deed: Dolores Huerta, Chicana Feminism and a Zurdo Ethos of Faith in Action\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eL. Heidenreich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Women Religious Negotiations of Ethos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Sister Miriam Joseph’s Rhetorical Advocacy: The Trivium and Renaissance Rhetoric at St. Mary’s College, 1931-1960\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Burzynski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen: Holiness is Not for Wimps: The Rhetoric of Mother Angelica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer L. Bay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Fourteen: A Time to be Queer: Challenging the Rhetoric of Acceptance through the Works of Sister Joan Chittister\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeth Buyserie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Fifteen: Standing in the Eye of the Storm: The Eternal Habits of US Women Religious \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie Downing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042670444887,"sku":"9781793636218","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793636218.jpg?v=1750955103","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/catholic-women-s-rhetoric-in-the-united-states-ethos-the-patriarchy-and-feminist-resistance-9781793636218","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}