Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition examines the ways in which late classical medieval women\'s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social Identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self.
Flavin focuses on key texts from the lives of desert saints and the Passio Perpetua to the autobiographies of Counter-Reformation Women like Teresa of vila to illustrate the.
Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition examines the ways in which late classical medieval women\'s writings serve as a means of emphasizing both faith and social Identity within a distinctly Christian, and later Catholic, tradition, which remains a major part of the understanding of faith and the self
