The Catholic Church and the Woman Question: Catholic Feminism in Italy in the Early 1900s

At the turn of the twentieth century the Catholic Church promoted women’s associations in an attempt to reassert Christianity in a struggle against its liberal and socialist adversaries. Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) called on Catholics to address a raft of serious problems resulti...

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1. VerfasserIn: Dawes, Helena (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: The Catholic University of America Press 2011
In: The catholic historical review
Jahr: 2011, Band: 97, Heft: 3, Seiten: 484-526
weitere Schlagwörter:B women and the church
B Catholic feminism
B Italian feminism
B femminismo cristiano
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Zusammenfassung:At the turn of the twentieth century the Catholic Church promoted women’s associations in an attempt to reassert Christianity in a struggle against its liberal and socialist adversaries. Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) called on Catholics to address a raft of serious problems resulting from social and economic transformations. This gave rise to a Christian Democratic movement and, within it, to Catholic feminism. Focusing on two Catholic women’s periodicals, L’azione muliebre and Pensiero e azione, the author studies the emergence and the nature of Catholic feminism as well as its suppression by the Church.
ISSN:1534-0708
Enthält:Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cat.2011.0089