Unconventional Women: The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Gilbert, Sarah

Unconventional Women: The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order...
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Author: Sarah Gilbert
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Unconventional Women: The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Gilbert, Sarah

Unconventional Women: The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

¥5,532

Unconventional Women: The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

¥5,532
Author: Sarah Gilbert
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, and by the changing times. Their convent threw open its doors on a new world and the women wanted to be part of it. The personal accounts of the six nuns and ex-nuns in Unconventional Women are unusually candid, giving a rare insight into the world of the convent, and exploring their changing relationship with both God and the world.

Author: Sarah Gilbert
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 07/02/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780522880397

About the Author
Sarah Gilbert is a writer, producer and oral historian. She began her career as a newspaper copy girl in Sydney before moving overseas, reporting for New York tabloid and later as a travel writer in Buenos Aires. She now works as a writer and producer in documentary television and podcasting, and she lives with her family in Sydney.


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