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050 00 $aBX4668.3.W66$bA35 1983
100 1 $aWong, Mary Gilligan.
245 10 $aNun :$ba memoir /$cMary Gilligan Wong.
250 $a1st ed.
260 0 $aNew York :$bHarcourt Brace Jovanovich,$cc1983.
300 $axviii, 390 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $aLike many Catholic girls prior to Vatican II, Mary wanted to be a nun. Ecstatic at her acceptance into a teaching order, she began the period of intense training called "formation," learning the virtues prescribed by a 19th-century, male-dominated Church: humility, self-abnegation, and childlike dependence on the will of her superiors. What happens to a normal 14-year-old girl, giggly and interested in boys, who adores her family yet feels compelled to commit herself to a life that will demand that she never again visit her parents' home? And what leads Mary, "formed" and on mission, to make the decision not to take her final vows? Here, the author invites the reader to enter the world of the young woman who made that journey, to wander the cloistered halls of the convent and experience from the inside the workings of cloistered minds and hearts. Mary Wong interviewed forty former nuns about the experience of convent life, interweaving their stories with hers in a candid, funny, deeply moving account of her training and adventures, and of the beliefs and doubts that persevere.--From publisher description.
505 0 $aGood Catholic girl (1943-1957) -- Boarding school (1957-1961) -- Formation (1961-1966) -- Missionary (fall 1966-summer 1968) -- Back to the world (August 1968-December 1968) -- Worldling -- Full circle.
600 10 $aWong, Mary Gilligan.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aWong, Mary Gilligan.$tNun.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1983$w(OCoLC)609408865
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