Recovering Their Stories

Introduction
Nicholas K. Rademacher and Sandra Yocum 1
"Pray for good sounds": Black Catholic Practice, Friendship,
and Irreverence in the Intimate Correspondence of Mary Lou Williams
Vaughn A. Booker 9
Nina Polcyn: Living Art and Women's Leadership at St. Benet's Bookstore
Brian J. Clites 37
Lucy Looks Twice: The Agency of Lay Lakota Catholic Women, and the Legacy of Nicholas Black Elk
Damian Costello 61
Dolores Huerta Haciendo Mas Caras: Navigating a Catholic World Not Scripted for Her
Neomi De Anda 71
Catholic Laywomen's Natural Family Planning across Three Generations
Katherine Dugan 98
Our Lady of the Liturgical Movement?
Rejecting and Reclaiming Marian Devotion by American Catholic Laywomen
Katharine E. Harmon 116
The Catholic Novel: Book Reviews in Katherine Burton's
'Woman to Woman' Columns, 1933-1942
Annie Huey 139
"We Are Not Here to Convict but to Convince":
A Catholic Laywoman's Witness to Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia
Maureen H. O'Connell 160
Laywomen as Church Patrons: Clare Boothe Luce,
Marguerite Brunswig Staude, and Dominique de Menil
Catherine R. Osborne 186
The Road to Friendship House: Ellen Tarry and Ann Harrigan
Discern an Interracial Vocation in the US Catholic Landscape
Nicholas K. Rademacher 206
From Grailville to the Universe:
How the Grail Movement Widened the Possibilities for American Catholic Laywomen
Marian Ronan 229
Laywomen Enacting the Mystical Body
Sandra Yocum 250
Acknowledgments 271
List of Contributors 273
Index 275