Women, Sainthood, and Power explores the life stories of an international gallery of female saints from the wide-angle lens of several intellectual disciplines and the close-up view afforded by keenly observed fine points of character. Oliva M. Espín combines multidisciplinary scholarly research with a novelist's eye for detail to create vivid portraits of saints in their times and places. Using her own memories, Espín argues that there are lessons to learn today from the lives of these exceptional women. This book is recommended for scholars and students of psychology, religious studies, gender and women's studies, history, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.
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Oliva M. Espín is professor emerita in the Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University and professor emerita of psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University.
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AcknowledgmentsPreface: A Tale about Hope, Courage, and Saints Introduction: Fire and Gas: Women Saints over Five Centuries
Chapter 1: La Fabbrica dei Santi- How Politics and Culture Determine Who Is a Saint
Chapter 2: Political Saints and Saintly Politics: Joan of Arc and Catherine of Siena
Chapter 3: "Holy Anorexics" God, Agency, Women's Bodies and Self-Starvation in Early Colonial Spanish-America: Rose of Lima and Mariana of Quito
Chapter 4: Las Santas Criollas: Rosa de Lima, Mariana de Quito, and National Identity in Colonial Spanish-America
Chapter 5: Teresa of Avila: The Love of God as Source of Authority
Chapter 6: Edith Stein: Paradoxes of a Jewish Saint
Chapter 7: Mystics of Political Resistance: Teresa of Avila's and Edith Stein's Visions of Womanhood
Chapter 8: Pain, Loss, and Psychological Distress in Thérèse of Lisieux, The 'Little Flower' who wanted to be a Priest
Chapter 9: Doctors but not Priests- Women Doctors in the Roman Catholic Church: Teresa, Catherine, Thérèse and Hildegard
Chapter 10: North American Saints: Cabrini, Seton, Drexel, Tekakwitha…But No Black American Saints Yet
Conclusion: Final Thoughts
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