{"product_id":"visual-habits-nuns-feminism-and-american-postwar-popular-culture-9780802037763","title":"Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture","description":"\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\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.62w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802037763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSullivan, Rebecca:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Sullivan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44214160523379,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_432048fb-c977-4dcb-a564-4c698b35ab1d.jpg?v=1767708302","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/visual-habits-nuns-feminism-and-american-postwar-popular-culture-9780802037763","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}