No Turning Back: Two Nuns Battle With the Vatican over Women's Right to Choose

Ferraro, Barbara; Hussey, Patricia; O'Reilly, Jane

ISBN 10: 0671644068 / ISBN 13: 9780671644062

Published by Poseidon Pr, 1990

About this Item

Inscribed by author Patricia Hussey and dated 10-14-90 on front free endpaper in black ink.Flat Signed (signature only, no inscription) by author Barbara Ferraro on front free endpaper in blue/black ink.FIRST edition, FIRST printing, full number line starting with a "1". Dust jacket is intact and in very good condition with minor wear. Text block is clean, bright and tight, with no markings, corner creases or other defects noted. Providing superior service since 2001. Dropshippers heartily welcomed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Turning Back: Two Nuns Battle With the Vatican over Women's Right to Choose
• Publisher: Poseidon Pr
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671644068
• ISBN 13: 9780671644062
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 23 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Two nuns recount their struggle with the Vatican over women's right to choose an abortion, discussing the larger issue of women's place in the Catholic Church

Reviews

This autobiographical account by two ex-nuns is not so much an exploration of the abortion issue as it is an excellent social history of the American Catholic Church over the last three decades. Ferraro and Hussey (writing here with freelancer O'Reilly) would have welcomed ordination as priests and might have been good ones. Their frustration at the limited pastoral role available to them--Catholicism's "glass ceiling"--led to their eventual rebellion, the abortion question merely serving as a vehicle for their final break with the Church. This largely anecdotal account of two women's journey from sheltered working-class Catholic childhoods to the lofty world of a feminist liberation theology will appeal to Catholic and feminist readers. For religion collections.
- Donna K. Bausch, Regent Univ. Law Lib., Virginia Beach, Va.
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