Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965 Volume 2

by Brian Titley

For many American Catholics in the twentieth-century the face of the Church was a woman's face. After the Second World War, as increasing numbers of baby boomers flooded Catholic classrooms, the Church actively recruited tens of thousands of young women as teaching sisters. In Into Silence and Servitude Brian Titley delves into the experiences of young women who entered Catholic religious sisterhoods at this time. The Church favoured nuns as teachers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773551417
• ISBN13: 9780773551411
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"