“Rational Amusement and Sound Instruction”: Constructing the True Catholic Woman in the Ave Maria, 1865-1889

This article explores the relationship between gender ideology and popular culture in one particular time and place—a Catholic family magazine called the Ave Maria during the latter part of the nineteenth Century. This case study yields an interpretive sociological account of how women were portraye...

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Main Author: Becker, Penny Edgell (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1998
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 1998, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 55-90
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