Women Breaking Boundaries: A Grail Journey, 1940-1995

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SUNY Press, 28 oct. 1999 - 347 pages
Through memoir, interviews, and historical overview, Women Breaking Boundaries chronicles the evolution in the United States of the Grail an organization of Catholic lay women dedicated to restoring the Christian spirit to all aspects of life. Janet Kalven, who has been part of the movement since its inception in the early 1940s, traces its development through 1995.
 

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I Discover the Grail
1
Women Breaking Boundaries
21
Planting the Seeds 19401951
27
Grail Beginnings The Germinal Ideas and the Pioneers
29
Doddridge Farm Novitiate for the Laity 19401943
49
Women in Search of Autonomy The Move to Grailville 19431944
59
GrailvilleA Countercultural Oasis
75
GrailvilleA Center of the Lay Apostolate
91
Aggiornamento in the Grail
167
The Costs of Change
183
Coming of Age Seeds of Hope 19751995
195
From Alternative Education to Feminist Pedagogy
197
From Feminist Actions to Feminist Consciousness
217
From Secularism to Social Analysis
243
From Lay Missions to Multicultural Exchanges
265
From Religious Certainty to Religious Search
277

Fast Women in a Slow Church 19511964
105
Deepening the Roots Establishing the Grail Nucleus 1951
107
Get Six City Centers Expansion Coast to Coast 19511964
115
Laywomen to the Missions 19501964
141
Winds of Change 19641975
151
Tumultuous Changes and Creative Responses
153
People Problems and Promise
295
The United States Grail in Its International Context
305
Notes
309
Select Bibliography
325
Index
333
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Janet Kalven, a founding member of Grailville, is Co-chair of the Grail Women Task Force. She has published many works including With Both Eyes Open: Seeing Beyond Gender (coedited with Patricia A. Johnson).

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