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Jesus in Our Wombs - Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent (Paperback)
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Jesus in Our Wombs - Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent (Paperback)
Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity, 5
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In "Jesus in Our Wombs", Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the
walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the
lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants - young
women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who
conducted eighteen months of fieldwork in the convent, provides a
rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle
with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their struggle to
follow what they believe to be the will of God. Gracefully written,
finely textured, and theoretically rigorous, this book considers
how these aspiring nuns learn to experience God by cultivating an
altered experience of their own female bodies, a transformation
they view as a political stance against modernity. Lester explains
that the Postulants work toward what they see as an 'authentic'
femininity - one that has been eclipsed by the values of modern
society. The outcome of this process has political as well as
personal consequences. The Sisters learn to understand their very
intimate experiences of 'the Call' - and their choices in answering
it - as politically relevant declarations of self. Readers become
intimately acquainted with the personalities, family backgrounds,
friendships, and aspirations of the Postulants as Lester relates
the practices and experiences of their daily lives. Combining
compassionate, engaged ethnography with an incisive and provocative
theoretical analysis of embodied selves, "Jesus in Our Wombs"
delivers a profound analysis of what Lester calls the convent's
'technology of embodiment' on multiple levels - from the
phenomenological to the political.
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