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Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality
Innovative questions and methods in the analysis of religion, gender and culture transforming the study both of religion and of women.
330 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1985
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About the author
Clarissa W. Atkinson
6 books3 followersIn an earlier life, I taught and wrote books and articles about medieval history, including "The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages" and "Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe."
More recently I turned my attention to the 1950s and found Claudia Cumberbatch Jones, the black radical feminist who was deported from the U.S. in the McCarthy years. In London she founded and edited the West Indian Gazette. I published an essay about her in the Women’s Review of Books in 2006: “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country.” In 2008-2009 I was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University conducting further research on Claudia Jones.
Lately I’ve been thinking and writing about coming of age in the 1950s, among other subjects.
More recently I turned my attention to the 1950s and found Claudia Cumberbatch Jones, the black radical feminist who was deported from the U.S. in the McCarthy years. In London she founded and edited the West Indian Gazette. I published an essay about her in the Women’s Review of Books in 2006: “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country.” In 2008-2009 I was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University conducting further research on Claudia Jones.
Lately I’ve been thinking and writing about coming of age in the 1950s, among other subjects.
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