期刊名称：Encounters in Theory and History of Education
印刷版ISSN：1925-8992
出版年度：2021
卷号：22
DOI：10.24908/encounters.v22i0.14981
语种：English
出版社：Fueen's University
摘要：Barbara Welter concludes her pathbreaking article, “The Cult of True Womanhood, 1820-1860,” by declaring that “[Various forces in their lives] … called forth responses from woman, which differed from those she was trained to believe were hers by naturedivine decree. The very perfection of True Womanhood, moreover, carried within itself the seeds of its own destruction. For if woman was so very little less than the angels, she should surely take a more active part in running the world, especially since men were making such a hash of things” [174]. Traditionally, in both Welter’s original workthe many efforts that have subsequently followed, the living out of “True Womanhood”the creative subversion it unintentionally inspired have been understood almost exclusively in either secular or Protestant contexts. This article explores the role of Catholic education by sisters in both reinforcingundermining Victorian gender roles,specifically analyzes the contributions of Catholic women religious to the complexsubversive process that Welter suggested. It analyzes the culturalreligious tensions that characterized nineteenth-century Catholic women’s education, as well as the women’s agency that, however inadvertently, it came to empower.
