Women and the Catholic Church

Tracy McEwan

Women and the Catholic Church
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 April 2025
Pages
256
ISBN
9781350424821

Women and the Catholic Church

Tracy McEwan

How do Catholic women make sense of their involvement in a church with restrictive gendered roles and responsibilities? Is there a vision for church which might provide Catholic women with a faith community of hope, justice and flourishing? Introducing a new methodological approach to the study of Catholic women, this book provides fresh insights into women's religious and spiritual experiences and church participation. Drawing on a case study of Australian Catholic women, Tracy McEwan develops the notion of "technologies of Catholicism" to explore the ways in which women shape their religious and secular identities against the backdrop of a masculinist Church. This book is a key resource for those seeking to understand women's struggle to negotiate the impact of Catholicism and its oppressive gendered theologies. It introduces the term "everyday spiritual abuse" to explain the harm Catholic women experience on a day-to-day basis as they negotiate multiple material, spiritual, and structural inequalities. It proposes an alternative feminist model of church, which is contained and produced in the herstories of women.

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