Liberating Sanctuary

Jane Lamm Carroll is associate professor of history at St. Catherine University. Joanee Cavallaro is chair of the English department and professor of linguistics and women's studies at St. Catherine University. Sharon L. Doherty is professor of women's studies and anthropology, and director of the Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women at St. Catherine University.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Taking Catholic Women Seriously
Joanne Cavallaro, Jane Lamm Carroll, and Sharon Doherty
Section I: Liberating Visions, Remarkable Lives
1. Extravagantly Visionary Leadership: The Irelands and Mother Antonia McHugh
Jane Lamm Carroll
2. Portrait of a Daughter of St. Joseph: Sister Jeanne Marie Bonnett
John Fleming
3. Opening Doors: Sister AJ and the Minneapolis Campus
Deborah Churchill and Thelma Obah
4. Renewing the Meaning of a Women’s College: Identity and Standpoint in the 1970s
Sharon Doherty and Catherine Pribyl Lupori
Section II: Intellectual Life: In and Out of the Classroom
5. What a Woman Should Know, What a Woman Can Be: Curriculum as Prism
Joanne Cavallaro, Jane Lamm Carroll, and Lynne Gildensoph
6. Theology Fit for Women: Religious Wisdom, St. Catherine’s Style
Russell Connors, Joyce Dahlberg, Catherine Litecky, CSJ, MaryLou Logsdon, and Thomas West
7. Communion with Books: The Double Life of Literature
Cecilia Konchar Farr
Section III: Unique Legacy: Faculty and Student Experiences
8. Learning and Earning: The Work-Study Experience
Julie Balamut and Virginia Steinhagen
9. Possumus: Sisters’ Education in Feminism
Mary Alice Muellerleile and Joan Mitchell, CSJ
Postscript: Questions for the Twenty-First Century
Sharon Doherty, Jane Lamm Carroll, and Joanne Cavallaro
Bibliography
Contributors
Index