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Graceful Exits

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The personal narratives of nine 20th-century Catholic female authors-Monica Baldwin, Antonia White, Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon, Mary Daly, Barbara Ferraro, Patricia Hussey, Karen Armstrong, and Patricia Hampl-speak eloquently about the process of departure from the church and its institutions. This study explores each author's breaking of the taboo associated with women leaving their "proper place." It locates five themes at the heart of all of their narratives: reversal, boundary crossing, diaspora, renaming, and recycling. Debra Campbell grapples with the spirituality of departure depicted by all nine women, for whom the very process of leaving Catholic institutions is a Catholic enterprise. These narratives support the popular maxim that no one ever really leaves the church. In the final chapter, Campbell examines narratives of return, confirming the book's overarching theme that neither departure nor return is ever finished.

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ISBN: 9780253343161
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Author: Debra Campbell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 211 pages
Genres: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships
Christian life and practice