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- Title
Catholic Mothers and Daughters: Becoming Women.
- Authors
Keary, Anne
- Abstract
The socio-historical events and libertarian cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s shaped the Catholic mother-daughter relationship for the women in this feminist genealogical study. This study is based on interviews with 36 Anglo-Australian Catholic women – 13 sets of mothers and daughters – as well as dialogue between my mother and myself about family photographs. Women’s stories of secondary school days tell of the formation of lady-like identities circumscribed through uniform regulations, the cult of the Virgin Mary and ceremonies of everyday Catholic school life. The abject maternal body resurfaces in adolescence with the flow of menstrual blood, and the heralding sexuality of young women is circumscribed through patriarchal institutions such as Catholicism. Amid their silenced and contested dialogue, although years apart, the stories between mothers and daughters in this study drew parallels.
- Subjects
FEMINISM &; religion; CATHOLIC feminism; CATHOLIC women; WOMEN &; religion; MOTHER-daughter relationship; RELIGION
- Publication
Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0966-7350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0966735015612179