Abstract:
There are nuns everywhere in Florence: padding quietly down the street, on the bus, on bikes with their habits flying in the breeze. They may be one of my favorite aspects of my chosen Junior-Year-Abroad city.
Like most Italians, I deeply respect and admire nuns for their social work and their total dedication to something beyond themselves....
Bren Ortega Murphy
posted 11/05/09 @ 9:53 AM EST
Actually,women religious [sisters and nuns] ARE one aspect of the face of feminism. They fought to get equal educational opportunities for themselves and for other women. They were among the first women to hold advanced degrees, including in such fields as astrophysics and biology. They were the first women college presidents and hospital administrators. And two were founding members of N.O.W. Many of them today would call themselves feminist and certainly have encouraged hundreds...if not thousands of women to do the same. I think it's one reason they are being investigated.