In the schools -- Missionary work -- In hospitals and clinics -- Serving the undeserved -- Pastoral work -- Spiritual companions -- In the cloister -- On the cutting edge: changing attitudes -- Encounters with Judaism -- The creative dimension -- Two African-American voices -- Structures and fissures -- Summoned to lead -- The decision to leave -- Staying the course -- Living in the present -- Envisioning the future
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A collection of oral histories of American nuns, capturing their experiences over the past fifty years. Brings together women from more than forty different religious communities, most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II
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Monasticism and religious orders for women-- United States-- History-- 20th century