Graceful Exits
Subtitle: Catholic Women and the Art of Departure
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780253343161
Subjects: Christian life & practice; Women's studies; Christianity - Catholic; Religious; Women; Biography / Autobiography; Biography; Catholic Church; Catholic women; Ex-church members; Ex-nuns; History and criticism; Religion
First sentence: With these words Monica Baldwin traced the origins of her memoir I Leap over the Wall, a book written throughout the 1940s in other peoples' guest rooms and bungalows and in rented flats by a woman desperately in need of a room of her own.