J. DelRosso & L. Eicke 
The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers 
Critical Essays

This collection attends to western women’s struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions.

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Unruly Catholic Women Writers Through the Centuries; J.Del Rosso, L.Eicke & Ana Kothe Female as Flesh in the Later Middle Ages and the ‘Bodily Knowing’ of Angela of Foligno; J.Judge ‘I grab the microphone and move my body’: Volatile Speech, Volatile Bodies, and the Church’s Attempt to Measure Holiness; M.C.Bodden Letters from the Convent: St. Teresa of Ávila’s Epistolary Mode; J.Cammarata Talking Out of Church: Women Arguing Theology in Sor Juana’s loa to the Divino Narciso ; J.Gillespie Angela Carranza, Would-Be Theologian; S.Schlau Resituating Carvajal’s Vida in Protonovelistic Narratives; A.Kothe Through the Grate; Or, English Convents and the Transmission and Preservation of Female Catholic Recusant History; T.M.Mc Arthur ‘Must her own words do all?’: Domesticity, Catholicism and Activism in Adelaide Anne Procter’s Poems; C.L.Hoeckley The Legacy of Laveau in the Practice of Helen Prejean: The Tradition and Territory of New Orleans Spiritual Advisors; B.Eckstein ‘Reluctant Catholics’: Contemporary Irish-American Women Writers; S.Ebest Marie-Claire Blais Revises John Keats: Sadean Moments and Anti-Catholic Sentiment in Une saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel ; B.P.Robertson Catholicism’s Other(ed) Holy Trinity: Race, Class, and Gender in Black Catholic Girl School Narratives; J.Del Rosso Challenging Catholicism: Hagar vs. the Virgin in Graciela Limón’s The Memories of Ana Calderón ; M.J.Suero-Elliott Dis-robing the Priest: Gender and Spiritual Conversions in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse; P.Rader

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JEANA DELROSSO is Chair of the English Department and Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, USA.

LEIGH EICKE is Assistant Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA.

ANA KOETHE is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.