II. Family Welfare and Pernicious Property: White Womanhood and Catholic Social Thought in the United States
A significant literature presents the Catholic social thought tradition (CST) as a resource for combating racism and white supremacy, and an equally important body of work critiques the documentary tradition for the ways it fails to adequately address these pernicious social sins. This essay will co...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Horizons
Year: 2023, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 190-200 |
| Review of: | Nice white ladies (New York City : Seal Press, 2021) (Ward, Kate)
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology |
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Book review
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| Summary: | A significant literature presents the Catholic social thought tradition (CST) as a resource for combating racism and white supremacy, and an equally important body of work critiques the documentary tradition for the ways it fails to adequately address these pernicious social sins. This essay will combine elements of both approaches to address a topic relatively modest in scope: showing how attention to the historical and contemporary operation of white womanhood, exposed by sociologist Jessie Daniels in her book Nice White Ladies, informs, critiques, and presents opportunities for Catholic social thought on gender and family, both in the ecclesial documents and in their appropriations by white US Catholic scholars. I will address three themes: images of women; the nexus of families and the welfare state; and whiteness as property. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2023.7 |