학술논문
Clothes Make the Nun? Feminism, Fashion, and Representations of Catholic Sisters in the 1980s.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*NUNS
*CLOTHING & religion -- Christianity
*NINETEEN eighties
*FEMINISM
*FASHION
*WOMEN in the Catholic Church
*MONASTICISM & religious orders for women
*SISTERHOODS
20TH century Catholic Church history
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ISSN
0953-5233
Abstract
In 1980s, socially active nuns discarded the habit while gay men and kitschy nun dolls wore them. Why?This article explores the symbolism of dress and power. Scholars have examined the relationship between the habit, Catholics’ feelings toward nuns and the Catholic Church. But in the late 1970s and 1980s, I argue, the habit debate gained new salience with John Paul II’s papacy and sisters’ activism regarding female ordination, abortion and US policy in Central America. Nuns contested their place in the church and the nun as symbol grew more contested as gay men wore the habit and new nun dolls appeared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]