Unconventional Women: The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia
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In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they would meet from behind a partition built into the parlour. Their lives were confined by the convent walls, the rhythms of the Divine Office and the dictates of the Mother Superior. By the late 1960s, this community of women was upended by...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0522880398
ISBN13:9780522880397
Release Date:July 2024
Publisher:Melbourne University
Length:304 Pages
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