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Resisting Orders
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- Advancing Studies in Religion
2025
EN
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Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. For some this navigation has been painful; for others it has been impossible.Resisting Orders brings to light these women’s untold stories of resistance against religious doctrine and societal norms that contradict their feminist and social justice conv...
$31.99 CAD
Resisting Orders
- Book 17 -
- Advancing Studies in Religion
2025
EN
Accessible
Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. For some this navigation has been painful; for others it has been impossible.Resisting Orders brings to light these women’s untold stories of resistance against religious doctrine and societal norms that contradict their feminist and social justice conv...
$31.99 CAD
Resisting Orders
- Book 17 -
- Advancing Studies in Religion
2025
EN
Accessible
Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. For some this navigation has been painful; for others it has been impossible.Resisting Orders brings to light these women’s untold stories of resistance against religious doctrine and societal norms that contradict their feminist and social justice conv...
$31.99 CAD
Resisting Orders
- Book 17 -
- Advancing Studies in Religion
2025
EN
Accessible
Catholic religious sisters in Canada occupy a complicated position as they endeavour to live out their vocations while simultaneously representing and confronting a patriarchal and colonial institution that has caused harm. For some this navigation has been painful; for others it has been impossible.Resisting Orders brings to light these women’s untold stories of resistance against religious doctrine and societal norms that contradict their feminist and social justice conv...
$31.99 CAD
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