Blood Sisters Research Articles

Public and Parochial: How the Sisters of the Precious Blood Shaped State-Funded Education in Ohio

The Sisters of the Precious Blood came to West Central and Northwestern Ohio to minister to immigrant Catholics who began arriving by the 1830s. Many communities were predominately German Catholic, and religious sisters were considered best equipped to teach. As villages formed their own schools, many were attached to Catholic parishes, including some that benefited from common school funds. Consequently, many Sisters of the Precious Blood served as teachers in publicly-funded educational institutions. When schools expanded and merged in the early twentieth century, some Precious Blood Sisters found themselves in more diverse communities, with an increasing number of non-Catholics in the classroom. Some questioned the employment of sisters in state-supported schools, and court cases ensued. A test case against the school board in Fort Recovery required the Precious Blood Sisters' testimony. Although the court decided against the school board and required modification of the sisters' presence, they continued teaching in Ohio's public schools until the mid-1990s.

Retracing the Ritarian Roots: Talangpaz Sisters and Augustinian Recollects of San Sebastian Church

This historical account retraces the roots of Saint Rita College that commenced its foundation totally unheralded in 1907. In the horizon, we find the foundresses of the Congregation of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters: Mother Dionisia de Santa María, Mother Cecilia Rosa de Jesús and the Augustinian Recollects of the San Sebastian Church in Manila. The two foundresses were blood sisters who left their hometown in 1719 and traveled to San Sebastian de Calumpang in Manila where the cherished icon of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. They found a small house in Bilibid Viejo where they lived a life of seclusion, contemplation, and mortification. Their virtue and piety attracted the Augustinian Recollects of San Sebastian Convent. Not long after the Beaterio de San Sebastian was founded. It was 16 July 1725 when they lived as terciarias and followed the Rule of Saint Augustine under the protection of the Recollect religious of San Sebastian Convent. In 1907, the Recollect Fathers urged the sisters of the Beaterio to open a school for girls, after defraying the construction of the new edifice. And the Beaterio came in into being in 1907 Saint Rita Academy, later Colegio de Santa Rita, or Saint Rita College.

Lesbian Blood Drives as Community-Building Activism in the 1980s

As gay men began voluntarily withdrawing from blood donation in the early 1980s, lesbians in community with gay men in several U.S. cities organized drives to replenish the blood supply. These drives were sometimes the continuation of previously established drives by gay–lesbian organizations or faith communities, sometimes new initiatives in response to HIV/AIDS. However, after the initial publicity, mention of lesbian blood drives in print is both scarce and brief. Focusing on drives organized from 1983 to 1992 by a group known as San Diego Blood Sisters, this article is an initial step in documenting lesbian blood drives to inform and enrich conversations about histories of responses to HIV/AIDS, theoretical discussions of how community connections in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer spectrum are enacted and understood, and emerging research on intersections of gender and sexuality as they are expressed through blood donorship.

French Women in Revolutionary Action and Thought

French Women in Revolutionary Action and Thought Doris and Paul Beik. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade. Selected, Translated, and with an Introduction to Her Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xxi +195 pp. ISBN 0-252-31163-2 (cl); 0-253-20766-5 (pb). Claire Goldberg Moses and LesUe Wahl Rabine. Feminism, Socialism, and French Romanticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.371 pp. ISBN 0-253-20818-1 (cl); 0-253-20818-1 (pb). Marilyn Yalom. Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory. New York: Basic Books, 1993. xi + 308 pp. ISBN 0-465-09263-2 (cl). Marilyn J. Boxer These three books, by and about French women who participated in a half-century of revolutionary action and ideas, offer insight into the ways that sex differences affect human experience and perception and also into the methods that contemporary scholars use to reveal and interpret women's lives. Each book is intended for a different audience. AU three introduce readers directly to the words of women generaUy Utile known until the 1970s, when Flora Tristan reemerged in France and the United States as the subject of a dozen theses, dissertations, articles, and biographies , and until the 1980s, when authors of anthologies and texts destined for women's history and women's studies classes began to translate and publish selections from their works. By translating a substantial selection of excerpts from Tristan's major works, Doris and Paul Beik now make more widely avaüable her contributions to early nineteenth-century travel literature, social criticism, and feminist analysis. The book also documents her unique and lonely effort to mobihze the French working classes for social and economic transformation . Marilyn Yalom, as a teUer of tales of interest to a wider audience, adds to the vast popular Uterature on the French Revolution whüe also alerting scholars to a little used resource, women's memoirs. "No other Uterature in the Western world," she states, "offers such an early treasure of women recording their personal histories within the context of a great political cataclysm" (p. 11). Whüe relating and commenting on the Uves of this female "generation of 1789," Yalom skiUfuUy interweaves their observations and reflections. Claire Moses's and LesUe Rabine's innovative collaboration in social history and Uterary criticism also aUows their subjects to speak for them- © 1995 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 7 No. 4 (Winter) 152 Journal of Women's History Winter selves. Drawing on feminist and Uterary theory, the authors analyze both "word" and "act," "text" and "context," and the problems posed by their relationship. They devote somewhat over half their pages to the "word," through their translations of essays and correspondence written by working -class women of the Saint-Simonian movement including Tristan. Whüe the words and texts they make avaUable in EngUsh may appeal to a wide range of scholars in modern history, Uterature, and biography, their interpretation wül reach primarily readers prepared to interpret people's Uves in poststructuraUst terms. The French Revolution is often credited with shaking up the pieces of an older world so that roles and relationships of men and women of aU classes and stations could be reshaped into new forms. Women's reflections on their experiences of that event and its consequences offer a useful background for discussion of women's lives amid the social movements of the next half century. Yalom's memoirists were eyewitnesses to upheavals that tested their personal resources and their abüity to respond actively to challenges for which they were never prepared. They were often forced to defy both custom and law. Most were aristocrats and few supported the Revolution. The new world was not to their liking, and all portrayed themselves as victims. As Yalom points out, they "leave records of the connection of victimization and gender" (p. 7). But the interest for us, I believe, lies in the opposite direction. Without, I hope, trivializing the suffering of women who lost beloved husbands, fathers, and brothers to guillotine, sword, or gun; children to illness and malnutrition; or even their own Uves, one can find more significance in the process through which each...

Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory. Marilyn Yalom

<i>Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory</i>. Marilyn Yalom

Blood sisters. The french revolution in women's memory

Blood sisters. The french revolution in women's memory

Maralyn Yalom. Blood sisters: The French revolution in women's memories. NY: Basic Books, 1993. 308 pp. $25.00 (Reviewed by Antony Copley)

Maralyn Yalom. Blood sisters: The French revolution in women's memories. NY: Basic Books, 1993. 308 pp. $25.00 (Reviewed by Antony Copley)

Reviews and Short Notices: Late Modern

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Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory.

Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory.

Blood sisters: the French Revolution in women's memory

Blood sisters: the French Revolution in women's memory