Madeleva

by Mandell, Gail Porter

• ISBN13: 9780791434390
• ISBN10: 0791434397
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Before her death in 1964, Madeleva Wolff, CSC (Congregation of the Holy Cross), was recognized as one of American Catholicism's most extraordinary women. Known as an educator who founded the School of Sacred Theology (the first and, for more than a decade, the only institution to offer graduate degrees in theology to women) Madeleva was also renowned as a scholar, mystical poet, and the author of more than twenty books. Educated at Berkeley and Oxford, she participated in the Catholic Revival of the early part of the twentieth century and established a center of Christian culture and educational innovation at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, where she was president for twenty-seven years. Her friendships with C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, Charles Du Bos, and Clare Boothe Luce, among others, put her in touch with a wide range of Christian intellectuals. As a spokeswoman for the education of women and an advocate for the improvement of the status of women in the church, Madeleva anticipated the women's movement of the late 1960s and the reforms of

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
Acknowledgments	ix
Preface: At Last	xiii
The Harness-Maker's Daughter	1	(16)
I Go to School	17	(10)
Away from Home	27	(6)
Finding Peace	33	(12)
An Unlikely Candidate	45	(10)
Learning Holy Indifference	55	(14)
Patrins	69	(18)
Penelope	87	(16)
Procrustes' Bed	103	(14)
This Other Eden	117	(26)
Harnessing Her Will	143	(16)
Narrow Gates	159	(18)
Educating Women	177	(18)
In the Country of the Soul	195	(20)
The Relaxed Grasp	215	(14)
Giving Beauty Back	229	(14)
Sister Death	243	(16)
Notes	259	(34)
Selected Publications	293	(2)
Index	295