| Description |
1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Southeast Asia: politics, meaning, memory |
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Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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| Contents |
Prolegomenon: First, a Word -- 1. Sign Me Sister, OSB -- 2. What Makes a Woman? -- 3. The Making of the Missionary Benedictines -- 4. Unggoy Formation -- 5. Reclaiming Philippine Faith as Feminist Practice -- 6. The Woman Question -- 7. Filipina Feminism(s) Revisited |
| Summary |
"Unconventional Sisterhood is an ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Filipina Missionary Benedictine Sisters are renegotiating traditional understandings of gender, religious responsibility, and national identity in the context of a rapidly globalizing nation. Unlike the popular stereotypes of staid sisters cloaked in rigid religious dogmatism, they are doing so by telling jokes, engaging in eclectic religious rituals, maintaining connections with a local nationalist cult, and committing themselves to a radical and feminist politics. This work represents an important addition to scholarship on Philippine feminism. It is one of few ethnographies that focuses on female monasticism--of particular cultural importance in the Christian Philippines, where nuns enjoy relatively high social status and freedom from many of the traditional constraints delineating Filipina lives. It is noteworthy as well for its focus on metropolitan Manila--a socially complex, dynamic, diverse, and understudied environment"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Missionary Benedictine Sisters -- Philippines -- Manila
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| SUBJECT |
Missionary Benedictine Sisters fast |
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Benediktinerinnen gnd |
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Feminism -- Philippines -- Religious aspects
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Benedictine nuns -- Political activity -- Philippines
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Benedictine nuns -- Philippines -- Social conditions
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11.59 church history, history of doctrine: other.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
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Mission
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Feminismus
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Benedictinessen.
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Missiezusters.
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Gender roles.
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Role behavior.
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Philippines
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Philippinen
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| Genre/Form |
Ethnographies.
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Études ethnographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780472904266 |
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0472904264 |
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