1st Edition
Irish-American Catholic Women Writers vs. the Church Resisting Lives
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing Autobiographically
1 The Autobiography of Survival
2 Parents’ Lives: From Immigrant to Irish American
3 Daughters’ Lives: The Influence of Feminism
4 Sexual Lives: In Person and in Print
5 Writing Lives: Agency, Independence, and Creativity
6 Future Lives: Gesturing Toward Change
Index
Biography
Sally Barr Ebest is Professor Emerita in the English Department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she taught for 30 years.
“In her insightful and intuitive new study of contemporary novels and memoirs by Irish-American female writers, Sally Barr Ebest finds that the common denominator in the women’s work is Catholicism. She examines their sometimes pious, often rebellious relationship with the Church and explores its impact on their personal narratives and fiction and how it evolves over time.”
—Linda Dowling Almeida, Glucksman Ireland House, NYU (retired), Author, Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945–1995
