Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition examines the ways in which late classical medieval women's writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.
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Christopher Flavin is associate professor of English and chair of the department of languages and literature at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.
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Christopher M. Flavin examines the ways in which late classical medieval women's writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self. Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation women like Teresa of Ávila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.
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Introduction
Chapter One: Women Writing or Writing About Women
Chapter Two: (En) Gendering Texts: The Establishment of Women's Christian Literary Traditions
Chapter Three: Perpetua and Her Daughters: Mystics, Mothers, Martyrs, and Texts
Chapter Four: Constructing a New Self: Women, Truth, and the Rhetorical Turn of the Twelfth Century
Chapter Five: Heloise and the Rhetoric of the Self
Chapter Six: Texts Without Bodies, Churches Without Windows: Affective Piety in Women's Autobiographies
Chapter Seven: Reinvigorating the Traditions: St. Teresa and the Reformation