Recovering Their Stories

Nicholas K. Rademacher (Edited By) Nicholas K. Rademacher is professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Dayton. He is co-editor of the journal American Catholic Studies and author of Paul Hanly Furfey: Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer (Fordham, 2017). Sandra Yocum (Edited By) Sandra Yocum is University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton. Her publications have addressed a wide range of topics in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century US Catholicism, including papal authority, clergy sexual abuse, intellectual life, theological education, historiography, and spirituality.

Introduction Nicholas K. Rademacher and Sandra Yocum 1 "Pray for good sounds": Black Catholic Practice, Friendship, and Irreverence in the Intimate Correspondence of Mary Lou Williams Vaughn A. Booker 9 Nina Polcyn: Living Art and Women's Leadership at St. Benet's Bookstore Brian J. Clites 37 Lucy Looks Twice: The Agency of Lay Lakota Catholic Women, and the Legacy of Nicholas Black Elk Damian Costello 61 Dolores Huerta Haciendo Mas Caras: Navigating a Catholic World Not Scripted for Her Neomi De Anda 71 Catholic Laywomen's Natural Family Planning across Three Generations Katherine Dugan 98 Our Lady of the Liturgical Movement? Rejecting and Reclaiming Marian Devotion by American Catholic Laywomen Katharine E. Harmon 116 The Catholic Novel: Book Reviews in Katherine Burton's 'Woman to Woman' Columns, 1933-1942 Annie Huey 139 "We Are Not Here to Convict but to Convince": A Catholic Laywoman's Witness to Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia Maureen H. O'Connell 160 Laywomen as Church Patrons: Clare Boothe Luce, Marguerite Brunswig Staude, and Dominique de Menil Catherine R. Osborne 186 The Road to Friendship House: Ellen Tarry and Ann Harrigan Discern an Interracial Vocation in the US Catholic Landscape Nicholas K. Rademacher 206 From Grailville to the Universe: How the Grail Movement Widened the Possibilities for American Catholic Laywomen Marian Ronan 229 Laywomen Enacting the Mystical Body Sandra Yocum 250 Acknowledgments 271 List of Contributors 273 Index 275

Sandra Yocum and Nicholas Rademacher have given us the book we need at this moment. Keeping the focus on Catholic laywomen's leadership, faith, and creative energy, this collection showcases a diversity of experiences and highlights what is possible if we keep looking for laywomen's stories. Offering new, inter-disciplinary approaches, these scholars remind us once again of the centrality of laywomen in American Catholic history.---Mary J. Henold, Professor, Roanoke College, author of The Laywoman Project: Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era In centering the experiences of Catholic laywomen, this volume does more than simply recover their stories. The artists and activists, social workers and socialites who appear in these essays navigated competing power structures, and, in the process, developed unconventional insights into the challenges of their times. These essays capture the wry humor and idiosyncratic strategies these women employed as they worked to better their communities, Church, and nation.---Jeanne Petit, Hope College Laywomen--with the exception of Dorothy Day--are usually invisible in studies focusing on U.S. Catholicism. This excellent collection of essays takes a very necessary step in rectifying this situation by demonstrating the extraordinary variety of ways in which laywomen, even when ignored and mistreated, have contributed to their church. Readers of this volume will come away with a clear sense of how Catholic laywomen have both practiced their faith and played an essential role in the life and work of the church.---Margaret M. McGuinness, Professor Emerita, La Salle University, and author of Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision and Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America