Review: Brian Titley, Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.  £27.99, ISBN-10: 0773551417, pp. xvi + 281.

Rose Luminiello

Review: Brian Titley, Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. £27.99, ISBN-10: 0773551417, pp. xvi + 281.

Rose Luminiello

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Abstract

Into Silence and Servitude is an interesting volume which intends to explain how and why mid century American Catholic women chose to become women religious, and their experience in doing so. The method through which the author attempts to answer these questions, however, is often problematic.

Original language	English
Journal	Women's History (Journal of the Women's History Network)
Early online date	1 Jun 2022
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2022

Keywords

Women Religious
Ecclesiastical History
History of Women Religious
American History
History of American Catholicism
Women's History

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Review: Brian Titley, Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. £27.99, ISBN-10: 0773551417, pp. xvi + 281.

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