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Lesbian nuns : breaking silence
- Title
- Lesbian nuns : breaking silence / edited by Rosemary Curb & Nancy Manahan.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Warner Books edition.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Warner Books, [1986], c1985.
- Description
- xxxviii, 338 p. : ports. ; 18 cm.
- Other contributors
- Curb, Rosemary, 1940- Manahan, Nancy, 1946-
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-338). Paperback.
- Contents
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- What is a lesbian nun? / Rosemary Keefe Curb
- What silence does this book break? / Nancy Manahan
- My immaculate heart / Jeanne Cordova
- Journal of a novice / Barbara MacKenna
- Not even an altar girl / Diana J. Matthews
- Examen of consciousness / Judy Smith
- Voices from ghosts, including the Holy / Grace Shields
- Get rid of that nun / Marie Dennis
- From convent to coven : a working life / Kevyn Lutton
- What was a nice Jewish girl like me doing in a convent? / Ayyelet Hashachar
- So good, so right / Violet
- They shall not touch, even in jest / Margaret
- Certified straight / Kate Quigley
- Fresh starts / Betsy Redins
- Finding myself in Harlem / Marie
- My art and my spirit / Sonja Meidell
- Dissolving my masculine alter ego / Jane E. McLarson
- Don't be too rigid in your understanding of chastity / Sister Agatha
- Gay and celibate at sixty-five / Sister Marla
- The gift of sexuality in the spirit of celibacy / Sister Hana Zarinah
- The awakening / Sister Maria Nuscera
- Love that lesbian music / Sister Sara
- Second generation / Mary Alice Scully
- Union activists, lovers, and parents / Christine and Sheila
- Cozier that way / Terry
- Two closet doors / Elizabeth Durant
- Revolving doors / Coriander
- Recognizing myself as lesbian / Susan Weaver
- South American lawyer in the cloister / Maria Cristina
- Convent reminiscences / Maria Cristina
- Convent reminiscences / H. M. Fairfield-Hickey
- God was an innocent bystander / Jean O'Leary, as told to Jan Holden
- God's love is priceless / Ann Campbell
- Agoraphobia / Teresa O'Herlihy
- I always knew you would / Helen Horigan
- Myth for a winter's eve / Elizabeth Molloy
- From German Lutheran to ex-nun mystic / Helga Dietzel
- Healing in the dark / Mab Maher
- To shed the veil of anonymity / Sister Esperanza Fuerte
- Dream journey to myself / Sister Pat O'Donnell
- Alternative community / Sister Anne
- Lesbian nun : on the boundary / Sister Eileen Brady
- The grace to empower / Virginia Apuzzo
- Lifelong lovers / Mary Mendola
- Nun dreams : allegory of spiritual transformation / Joanne Marrow
- Mysticism : love or suffering? / Hannah Blue Heron
- No circle of woman arms under moonlight / Joyce
- Convent values and lesbian ethics / Jance Raymond and Patricia Hynes.
- Kinsey subjects
- Catholic attitudes on homosexuality. Clergy. Biographies of homosexuals--Female. Catholic Church--United States--20th century.
- ISBN
- 0446326593 (pbk.) : 9780446326599 (pbk.)