Gender and Identity
Gender studies, feminism, sexuality studies, LGBTQ+,
Black Madonna
- Black Madonna: A Womanist Look at Mary of Nazareth
By Courtney Hall Lee (2017)
Hundreds of medieval statues of Mary, the mother of Jesus, depict her with dark skin. Whether the statues were created this way or if smoke and dust over time have changed them is debated. This author uses this idea to discuss our society’s perspectives of Black women. Chapters in Part 1, entitled "Black motherhood: a history," include: “Motherhood during American slavery”; “Still serving: domestic work post-slavery”; “Sapphire, Mammy, and Jezebel: stereotypes of Black women.”
Available in the Marian Library.
Women's Issues in American Catholic History
- Harriette Lane Baggett papers, 1978-1996.
Primary documents. Collection of Harriette Lane Baggett's papers from her activism in Catholic feminist organizations: Women's Ordination Conference; Catholics Speak Out, a project of the Quixote Center in Hyattsville, Maryland. Also includes papers from the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, Beijing, China.
Available in the U.S. Catholic Special Collection
- My Life as a "Woman": Editing the World; and, Liberal Catholicism Reexamined by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels recounts her story as a woman in a high role in the workplace and the Catholic sphere. She highlights the supposed desire of American Catholics for a women's revolution in many aspects of Catholic life and the Church's response to such stances and voices. Peter Steinfels argues for an emergence and prominence in liberal Catholicism as a heroic stance to take amid the pains of the Church and of the world.
2008 Marianist Award Lecture
Online. Also available from the U.S. Catholic Special Collection.
Life of Sappho
- Le avventure di Saffo, poetessa di Mitilene
by Alessandro Verri (1790)
Little is known about the life of lyric poet Sappho (ca. 630 - 570 B.C.E.) but this early 19th century writer imagined adventures for her on the island of Lesbos.
Available in University Archives and Special Collections, Albert Emanuel Hall, by appointment.
