Fearless - Dail, Paula
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Having grown up the oldest of seven children in a motherless, impoverished, Southside Chicago Irish-Catholic family, at age seventeen Maggie Corrigan struggles with two choices: marriage and bearing more children than she can possibly care for, or entering the convent. She decides to dedicate her life to God, but never forgets her roots, or that her mother died in childbirth after too many pregnancies. As the Church's Vatican II reforms and the wider women's movement take hold, she realizes that by labeling birth control as a sin and abortion as murder, the patriarchal Catholic Church is…mehr

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Having grown up the oldest of seven children in a motherless, impoverished, Southside Chicago Irish-Catholic family, at age seventeen Maggie Corrigan struggles with two choices: marriage and bearing more children than she can possibly care for, or entering the convent. She decides to dedicate her life to God, but never forgets her roots, or that her mother died in childbirth after too many pregnancies. As the Church's Vatican II reforms and the wider women's movement take hold, she realizes that by labeling birth control as a sin and abortion as murder, the patriarchal Catholic Church is severely endangering women's lives. Never doubting her vocation, she decides she can no longer remain silent and, no matter the personal cost, is compelled to take up the fight for women's reproductive rights within the wealthiest, most powerful institution in the world-ruled over by a cabal of middle-aged men with no familial responsibilities. Some label her a heretic and others call her a saint, but everyone agrees that Sister Maggie Corrigan is fearless.
Autorenporträt
Paula Dáil is an award-winning writer and an emerita research professor of social welfare and public policy. A native Californian, she and her husband currently live in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest. For more information please visit www.paula-dail.com.