04495cam a2200745Ka 4500 ocn666915044 OCoLC 20200709060033.0 m d cr cn| 100929s2005 onca ob 001 0 eng d IDEBK eng IDEBK E7B OCLCQ JSTOR N$T 20049069330 647739860 9781442683112 (electronic bk.) 1442683112 (electronic bk.) 0802039359 (cloth : alk. paper) 0802037763 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)666915044 (OCoLC)647739860 682329 (N$T) 22573/ctt59ng6 JSTOR n-us--- BR115.A8 S85 2005 BX4220.U6 S84 2005 BR115* BR115 A8 S84 2005 BR115 A8 S84 2005 SOC002010 bisacsh REL000000 bisacsh SOC039000 bisacsh REL 012000 bisacsh 248.8/943/0973 22 N$TA Sullivan, Rebecca, 1966- Visual habits [electronic resource] : nuns, feminism, and American postwar popular culture / Rebecca Sullivan. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2005. 1 online resource (xi, 255 p.) : ill. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239) an index. "The 1950s and 1960s were times of extraordinary social and political change that redrew the boundaries between traditional and progressive, conservative and liberal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of Catholic nuns. During these two decades, nuns boldly experimented with their role in the church, removing their habits, rejecting the cloister, and fighting for social justice. The media quickly took to their cause and dubbed them 'the new nuns, ' modem exemplars of liberated but sexually contained womanhood." "With Visual Habits, Rebecca Sullivan brings this unexamined history of nuns to the fore, revisiting the intersection of three distinct movements - the Second Vatican Council, the second wave of feminism, and the sexual revolution - to explore the pivotal role nuns played in revamping cultural expectations of femininity and feminism." "From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in mainstream media and culture. Charting their evolving representation in film and television, popular music, magazines, and girls' literature, Sullivan discusses these images in the context of the period's seemingly unlimited potential for social change. In the process, she delivers a rich cultural analysis of a topic too long ignored."--Jacket. Introduction : gender, religion, and culture -- 1. Cracks in the cloister : the changing cultural role of nuns -- 2. Celluloid sisters : nuns in Hollywood -- 3. Whose story is The nun's story? -- 4. Adventurous souls : vocation books and postwar girl culture -- 5. Sing out, sister! : sacred music and the feminized folk scene -- 6. Gidget joins a convent : television confronts the new nuns -- Conclusion : the return of the new nuns. Nuns in art United States. Monasticism and religious orders for women United States. Feminism United States. Religieuses dans les médias États-Unis. Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins Etats-Unis. Féminisme États-Unis. Religiöse Kunst. swd Pop-Kultur. swd Nonne. swd Feminismus. swd USA. swd SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural bisacsh RELIGION / Christian Life / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Sullivan, Rebecca, 1966- Visual habits. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2005 9780802039354 (DLC) 2005282971 (OCoLC)57166110 ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10291452 MyiLibrary http://www.myilibrary.com?id=202918 JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442683112 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=682329 ebrary EBRY ebr10291452 EBSCOhost EBSC 682329 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 54298 54298