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dc.identifier	ECF_article_11803
dc.title	Recovering the Legacy of the Thought of Catholic Lay Women (1945-62)
dc.contributor.author	Núñez Bargueño Natalia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/journal-of-modern-and-contemporary-christianity/2023/1/recovering-the-legacy-of-the-thought-of-catholic-l/
dc.description.abstract	At the crossroads of gender studies, theology and transnational, intellectual and cultural history, this article introduces a new perspective on the pre-history of the Second Vatican Council. The post-war and early Cold War period coincided with the rise of a generation of lay women who became true national and international apostolate professionals. The herstories of their legacies have been largely overlooked or confined by biographical or national boundaries. However, due to their influence on public policies and agenda setting, lay women were able to use ‘female’ forms of associationism as an entryway into male-dominated arenas, including theological debates, while simultaneously beginning to articulate their desire for greater participation in both broader society and the Church.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoMaCC
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Issue 1 \| April 2023
dc.issued	2023-05-16
dc.dateAccepted	2023-03-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-01-17
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-6046
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/JoMaCC/2785-6046/2023/01/001
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Agency
dc.subject	Catholicism
dc.subject	Gender
dc.subject	Humanitarianism
dc.subject	Intellectual History
dc.subject	Lay Women
dc.subject	Personalism
dc.subject	Transnational History
dc.subject	United Nations

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Recovering the Legacy of the Thought of Catholic Lay Women (1945-62)

Natalia Núñez Bargueño Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain)

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At the crossroads of gender studies, theology and transnational, intellectual and cultural history, this article introduces a new perspective on the pre-history of the Second Vatican Council. The post-war and early Cold War period coincided with the rise of a generation of lay women who became true national and international apostolate professionals. The herstories of their legacies have been largely overlooked or confined by biographical or national boundaries. However, due to their influence on public policies and agenda setting, lay women were able to use ‘female’ forms of associationism as an entryway into male-dominated arenas, including theological debates, while simultaneously beginning to articulate their desire for greater participation in both broader society and the Church.

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May 16, 2023

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March 30, 2023

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Jan. 17, 2023

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Keywords: United Nations • Lay Women • Catholicism • Intellectual History • Transnational History • Personalism • Gender • Agency • Humanitarianism

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