TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lester,Rebecca J.
TI  - Jesus in our wombs: embodying modernity in a Mexican convent 
T2  - Ethnographic studies in subjectivity
SN  - 9780520938205
AV  - BX4220.M4 L47 2005eb
U1  - 255/.9/00972 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Postulancy
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Vie religieuse et monastique féminine
KW  - Mexique
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - Postulat (Religion)
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Nonnen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Etnografie
KW  - Rooms-Katholieke Kerk
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; Female bodies and the touch of God --; 2; Siervas --; 3; Religious formation --; 4; Brokenness : restless in my own skin --; 5; Belonging : sisters in arms --; 6; Containment : producing the interior --; 7; Regimentation : making the mindful body --; 8; Self-critique : diagnosing the soul --; 9; Surrender : turning it over to God --; 10; Re/collection : the temporal contours of the self --; 11; Changing the subject : transformations --; 12; Mexican modernities --; 13; Bodies and selves : theorizing embodiment; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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
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