Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States

Christina R. Pinkston; Elizabethada A. Wright

doi:10.5771/9781793636225

Summary

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 scandals. 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.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3621-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3622-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 324
Product type: Edited Book

Contents No access Pages i - viii
Acknowledgments No access Pages ix - x
1. Ending the Ignorance No access
2. “A Wider and More Purposeful Life” No access
3. Overview No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. 1. Different Environments No access
  2. Correspondence No access
  3. Parrhesia No access
  4. Speaking Truth to Power in Relation to Others No access
  5. Rethinking Parrhesia through the Lens of Ethos No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. 1. Phase One: Communicating Memory through Epideictic No access
    2. Phase Two: Circulating Memory No access
    3. Phase Three: Cultural Memory No access
  2. Theorizing Phases of Memory and the Development of the Mercy Ethos No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Henriette Delille and the SSF No access
  2. Materiality Shapes Identity No access
  3. Visible Habits No access
  4. Dwelling Places No access
  5. Reconstruction of Meaning, Interrupted No access
  6. Redefining the Character of New Orleans No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Embodied Ethos No access
  2. 1. Who They Are No access
    2. Cecily Jones No access
    3. Joann Malone No access
  3. Crossing the Line No access
  4. Corporate Body No access
  5. D.C. Nine No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Lay Resistance to U.S. Catholic Church Closures in the Early Twenty-First Century No access
  2. St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Jamesville, New York: From Closure to a Canonical First No access
  3. 1. Agency No access
    2. Metis No access
    3. Relationality No access
  4. In Limbo: Resisting Happy-Ending Stories No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. 1. Theme 1: Good Catholic Mothers Involve Themselves and Their Families in the life of the Church No access
    2. Theme 2: Revelations of CPSA Fracture Catholic Mothers’ Relationship with the Institutional Church No access
    3. Theme 3: Good Catholic Mothers Seek Redress for CPSA No access
    4. Theme 4: Good Catholic Mothers Advocate for Children within the Institutional Church No access
  2. Conclusion: Culture, Power, and the (Re)Making of a Subject Position No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Ethos as Presence No access
  2. Exigence for Accountability No access
  3. Cecelia Viggo Wexler: Accountability as Acknowledging Women No access
  4. Barbara Blaine: Accountability as Listening and Justice No access
  5. Ethos as Presence and a New Feminist Accountability No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Defining Coexistent Ethos No access
  2. The Development of Catholic Lay Womanhood No access
  3. Developing a Business Ethos No access
  4. The Annual Report Genre No access
  5. Report-Writing Manuals, Guides, Handbooks, and Textbooks No access
  6. The CWL: 1919–1921 Year Book No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Mary Daly No access
  2. Daly’s Rhetorical Progression No access
  3. Shifting Rhetorical Stances No access
  4. Silence, Listening, and Ethos No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Living Rhetorically: Dorothy Day and Embodied Rhetoric No access
  2. Metanoia and Transformation No access
  3. Dorothy Day’s Metanoias No access
  4. Reconsidering Dorothy Day’s Ethos No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Prayer, Girl Scouts, Service: Childhood Matters No access
  2. A Catholic Ethos No access
  3. Long Line of Rhetors No access
  4. Theory from our Flesh No access
  5. Walking the Path to El Mundo Zurdo No access
  6. Expansive Queer Faith—Expansive Queer Ethos No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Trivium at St. Mary’s No access
  2. Joseph’s ETHOS: The Advocate/Advocacy No access
  3. Incompatible Advocacy No access
  4. An Ecological Perspective No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Background and History of Mother Angelica No access
  2. Rhetorical Beginnings in Birmingham No access
  3. Mother Angelica’s Rhetorical Style No access
  4. “Keep Us between Your Gas and Electric Bills” No access
  5. God Needs Dodoes No access
  6. Feud with Cardinal Mahony No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Reframing Ethos No access
  2. Questioning Authority No access
  3. Reframing Love, Respect, and Acceptance No access
  4. Continuing to Question No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
4. 1. The Seeds of Dispute No access
  2. Subversion and Incarnation No access
  3. The Habit of Contemplative Dialogue No access
  4. Resistance to a Hierarchical Mindset No access
  5. Immutable Laws, Immutable Habits No access
  6. Living Out a Public Faith No access
  7. Nuns On THE Bus No access
  8. Revising the Public Imaginary No access
  9. The Hope of Re-membered Habits No access
  10. Notes No access
  11. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 311 - 320
About the Contributors No access Pages 321 - 324