Women and the Catholic Church

"This book develops a new methodological framework for analysing the power, participation, and identity of women in patriarchal religious institutions. It theorises the harm women experience in Catholicism as a quotidian form of gendered violence, and conceptualises and defines "everyday spiritual abuse". The book also critically examines how women negotiate and subvert hegemonic systems of power and knowledge in Catholicism through an in-depth exploration of the lived identities and experiences of Gen X women in Australia"--