Women, Sainthood, and Power

AcknowledgmentsPreface: A Tale about Hope, Courage, and Saints Introduction: Fire and Gas: Women Saints over Five Centuries

Chapter 1: La Fabbrica dei Santi- How Politics and Culture Determine Who Is a Saint

Chapter 2: Political Saints and Saintly Politics: Joan of Arc and Catherine of Siena

Chapter 3: "Holy Anorexics" God, Agency, Women's Bodies and Self-Starvation in Early Colonial Spanish-America: Rose of Lima and Mariana of Quito

Chapter 4: Las Santas Criollas: Rosa de Lima, Mariana de Quito, and National Identity in Colonial Spanish-America

Chapter 5: Teresa of Avila: The Love of God as Source of Authority

Chapter 6: Edith Stein: Paradoxes of a Jewish Saint

Chapter 7: Mystics of Political Resistance: Teresa of Avila's and Edith Stein's Visions of Womanhood

Chapter 8: Pain, Loss, and Psychological Distress in Thérèse of Lisieux, The 'Little Flower' who wanted to be a Priest

Chapter 9: Doctors but not Priests- Women Doctors in the Roman Catholic Church: Teresa, Catherine, Thérèse and Hildegard

Chapter 10: North American Saints: Cabrini, Seton, Drexel, Tekakwitha...But No Black American Saints Yet

Conclusion: Final Thoughts

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