Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture

by Rebecca Sullivan

Book Overview

The 1950s and 60s were times of extraordinary social and political change across North America that re-drew the boundaries between traditional and progressive, conservative and liberal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of Catholic nuns. During these two decades, nuns boldly experimented with their role in the church, removing their habits, rejecting the cloister, and fighting for social justice. The media quickly took to their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802037763
• ISBN13: 9780802037763
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"