Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture

Author:   Rebecca Sullivan
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780802039354


Pages:   340
Publication Date:   24 May 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Rebecca Sullivan
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.464kg
ISBN:  

9780802039354


ISBN 10:   0802039359
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   24 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Visual Habits is a must-read in a culture that has forgotten the influence of professed religious in both women's history and pop culture?women religious, vocations directors and those with an interest in the films and folk music of the post-war era will enjoy grappling with this thought-provoking work. -- Dorothy Cummings The Catholic Register Visual Habitsprovides a persuasive argument of how postwar worries concerning women were calmed by fantasizing about spunky women wearing veils. At the same time, it reminds us of the importance of imagining alternatives to the heterosexual family romance that is far from being the natural order of things. -- Colleen McDannell Bookforum - Oct/Nov 2005 Vol. 12 Issue 3


<p> Visual Habitsprovides a persuasive argument of how postwar worries concerning women were calmed by fantasizing about spunky women wearing veils. At the same time, it reminds us of the importance of imagining alternatives to the heterosexual family romance that is far from being the natural order of things. -- Colleen McDannell Bookforum - Oct/Nov 2005 Vol. 12 Issue 3


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Rebecca Sullivan is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

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