{"product_id":"visual-habits-nuns-feminism-and-american-postwar-popular-culture-paperback-softback-9780802037763","title":"Visual Habits; Nuns, Feminism, and American Postwar Popular Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780802037763","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVisual Habits\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNuns, Feminism, and American Postwar Popular Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRebecca Sullivan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802037763\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 June 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eVisual Habits\u003c\/em\u003eprovides 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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Colleen McDannell (Bookforum - Oct\/Nov 2005 Vol. 12 Issue 3) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVisual Habits\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Dorothy Cummings (The Catholic Register)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1950s and 60s were times of extraordinary social and political change across North America that re-drew the boundaries between traditional and progressive, conservative and liberal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of Catholic nuns. During these two decades, nuns boldly experimented with their role in the church, removing their habits, rejecting the cloister, and fighting for social justice. The media quickly took to their cause and dubbed them 'the new nuns,' modern exemplars of liberated but sexually contained womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eVisual Habits\u003c\/i\u003e, Rebecca Sullivan brings this unexamined history of nuns to the fore, revisiting the intersection of three distinct movements - the Second Vatican Council, the second wave of feminism, and the sexual revolution - to explore the pivotal role nuns played in revamping cultural expectations of femininity and feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Nun's Story\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Flying Nun\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Singing Nun\u003c\/i\u003e, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Charting their evolving representation in film and television, popular music, magazines, and girls' literature, Sullivan discusses these images in the context of the period's seemingly unlimited potential for social change. In the process, she delivers a rich cultural analysis of a topic too long ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52542578688280,"sku":"9780802037763","price":26.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/visual-habits-nuns-feminism-and-american-postwar-popular-culture-paperback-softback-9780802037763","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}