Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. It draws on archival materials and a remarkable set of eighty interviews to place Catholic sisters and nuns at the heart of the turbulent 1960s, integrating their story of social change into a larger British and international one. Shedding new light on how religious bodies engaged in modernisation, it addresses themes such as the Modern Girl and youth culture, 1968 , generational discourse, post-war modernity, the voluntary sector and the women s movement. Women religious were at the forefront of the Roman Catholic Church s movement of adaptation and renewal towards the world. This volume tells their stories in their own words. -- .