Overview

In this courageous book, Tish Langlois challenges Catholic liturgy and ideology that benefits men at the expense of women and children. Through a gendered division of labour and a rigidly defined sexuality, Catholic culture can foster sexual abuse within Catholic families.Working from the premise that sexual justice for girls and women is attainable, she exposes the power relationships that promote female obedience to the male head within families and the church. In conversations with survivors of sexual abuse, she traces the fault lines in each of these women's lives: that moment of realization when each of them understood that what happened to them was seriously wrong. Sexual justice, Langlois argues, is not an impossibility but something all women and men within Catholocism should strive to achieve.

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Author:   Tish Langlois
Publisher:   Second Story Press
Imprint:   Second Story Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780929005980

ISBN 10:   0929005988
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   07 August 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Right Time in History: Exploring Sexual Justice Participants' Biographical Overviews Chapter 1: Knowledge in the Making: Women's Experiences of the Research Process Chapter 2: The Standpoint of Catholic Incest Survivors: Developing a Theoretical Framework Chapter 3: Incest: Definitions, Theories, Social Context Chapter 4: Catholic Ideology and Incest: Tracing History, Making Connections Chapter 5: Charting Fault Lines in Catholic Family Culture Chapter 6: Catholic Family Ideology, Male Privilege and Incest Chapter 7: Catholic Family Ideology, Mothering and Incest Chapter 8: Incest and Catholic Sexual Ideology Chapter 9: Healing the Points of Rupture in Catholic Families Appendices Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography Index

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Fault Lines is not easy reading but it is a necessary breaking of silence, and another challenge to the oppressive structures and theologies of our broken church. -- Dr. Dolores Hall, PBVM, teacher and spiritual director

Author Information

Tish Langlois was the first recipient of a Master of Women's Studies degree at Memorial University. She is pursuing a doctorate in sociology at the University of Toronto.

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