TY - BOOK ID - 77863929 TI - Graceful exits PY - 2003 SN - 1282071459 9786612071454 0253110718 9780253110718 9780253343161 025334316X 9781282071452 025334316X 6612071451 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Ex-nuns KW - Ex-church members KW - Catholic women KW - Former nuns KW - Nuns KW - Apostates KW - Church dropouts KW - Church members, Fallen-away KW - Church members, Lapsed KW - Fallen-away church members KW - Inactive church members KW - Lapsed church members KW - Non-church-affiliated people KW - Women, Catholic KW - Christian women KW - Biography KW - History and criticism. KW - Catholic Church KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77863929 AB - The personal narratives of nine 20th-century Catholic female authors -- Monica Baldwin, Antonia White, Mary McCarthy, Mary Gordon, Mary Daly, Barbara Ferraro, Patricia Hussey, Karen Armstrong, and Patricia Hampl -- speak eloquently about the process of departure from the church and its institutions. This study explores each author's breaking of the taboo associated with women leaving their ""proper place."" It locates five themes at the heart of all of their narratives: reversal, boundary crossing, dia ER -