Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition: Inventing Women

By Christopher M Flavin

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 vila to illustrate the connections between the self and the divine.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498592724
• ISBN13: 9781498592727
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"