Anne
Morie: I Survived All-Girl Catholic
School
I attended two all girl Catholic schools in the midwest, graduating in 1981. The Felician nuns I knew at Nymphwood High School were products of a conservative, religious climate at odds with the women's movement. However growing up within the Catholic Church, I was not exposed to the concept of women's rights and did not realise this conflict until much, much later. When I was fifteen, twenty and even twenty-five years old, I could not explain for myself or verbalise to anyone else why I loved the television program "Little House on the Prairie," but did not care for "Gunsmoke" or "Bonanza." The concept of the female subject did not occur to me until I was nearly thirty years old in the 1990s. Now, after grad school...my aim is to share my feminist awakening with people, especially women, in the midwest and other areas where the message has been slow to take hold. Learning misogny from Felician Nuns helped make me the rebel I am today, but reading about the women's movement changed my life for the better and proved to me that sisterhood can be powerful and good.
I attended two all girl Catholic schools in the midwest, graduating in 1981. The Felician nuns I knew at Nymphwood High School were products of a conservative, religious climate at odds with the women's movement. However growing up within the Catholic Church, I was not exposed to the concept of women's rights and did not realise this conflict until much, much later. When I was fifteen, twenty and even twenty-five years old, I could not explain for myself or verbalise to anyone else why I loved the television program "Little House on the Prairie," but did not care for "Gunsmoke" or "Bonanza." The concept of the female subject did not occur to me until I was nearly thirty years old in the 1990s. Now, after grad school...my aim is to share my feminist awakening with people, especially women, in the midwest and other areas where the message has been slow to take hold. Learning misogny from Felician Nuns helped make me the rebel I am today, but reading about the women's movement changed my life for the better and proved to me that sisterhood can be powerful and good.
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