Title: Dedicated to God
Description: As a subculture, cloistered monastic nuns live hidden from public view by choice. Once a woman joins the cloister and makes final vows, she is almost never seen and her voice is not heard; her story is essentially nonexistent in the historical record and collective, public history. From interviews conducted over six years, Reese tells the stories of the Poor Clare Colettine Order, a cloistered contemplative order at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Rockford, Illinois.
Subjects: Nuns, Monastic and religious life of women, Christianity, Women, united states, Colettines, Biography, Oral history, Oral biography, Corpus Christi Monastery (Rockford, Ill.)