The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille (The Madeleva Lecture Series) - Softcover

Copeland, M. Shawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809144891 ISBN 13: 9780809144891

Verlag: PAULIST PR, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Henriette Delille was born into a nineteenth-century American society that condoned the attitude that women of color existed for white male use whether they were enslaved or free. Repudiating prevailing societal norms and customs, Delille founded a religious congregation, the Sisters of the Holy Family, for free women of color, and thereby asserted black women as fully capable of chastity and of possessing, choosing; and disposing of themselves and their own bodies.
Delille's vision challenged commonly held readings of those bodies; contravened slavery's vicious stereotypes of black women as impious, promiscuous, and lewd; and constructed an alternative to Louisiana's system of placage, or concubinage between a white man and a free black woman. Drawing on her own research as well as a range of historical and theological resources, Shawn Copeland paints a compelling portrait of an intrepid woman who is being considered for elevation to sainthood in the Catholic Church.

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M. Shawn Copeland is associate professor of systematic theology at Boston College and (adjunct) associate professor of systematic theology at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana.

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• Verlag: PAULIST PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809144891
• ISBN 13: 9780809144891
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 85
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