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Unconventional women : the story of the last Blessed Sacrament sisters in Australia
Gilbert, Sarah2024
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In the 1950s and 60s, seven young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior for what they thought would be the rest of their lives. By the late 1960s, this community of women was upended by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, and by the changing times. Their convent threw open its doors on a new world and the women wanted to be part of it. The personal accounts of the nuns and ex-nuns in Unconventional Women are unusually candid, giving a rare insight into the world of the convent, and exploring their changing relationship with both God and the world.
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Imprint:
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2024.
Collation:
ix, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780522880397 (paperback)
Dewey class:
255.97
Language:
English
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BRN:
510567
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 255.97 UNC | Available |