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"Torres, in the tradition of Gloria Anzaldúa, challenges women's communities to break free from 'desconocimientos' that limit their own agency. Accompanying the Guadalupanas of Kansas City, Torres provides a living and contemporary example of how a community of women navigate and gain consciousness about the structures that define, illuminate and restrict their identities. Once again the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe empowers marginalized communities to publicly proclaim their presence and the importance of their religio-cultural identity."
- Jeanette Rodriguez, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Seattle University, USA
'In this book, Chicana scholar Theresa Torres offers a lucid exploration of the role of the Guadalupanas in their neighborhood church in Kansas City; readers learn how the Guadalupanas' role while empowering was also limiting and how complex these roles play out in a community. The Paradox of Latina Religious Leadership in the Catholic Church is a contribution to religious studies, women's studies and fills a critical gap in the literature as there is little written about Mexican American women in the Midwest.'
- Norma Elia Cantú, Professor of Latina and Latino Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
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Book Title: The Paradox of Latina Religious Leadership in the Catholic Church
Book Subtitle: Las Guadalupanas of Kansas City
Authors: Theresa L. Torres
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137370327
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Theresa L. Torres 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37219-2Published: 18 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47605-3Published: 18 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37032-7Published: 18 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Latin American Culture, Christianity, Religious Studies, general, Catholicism