{"product_id":"9780773574724","title":"The Congregation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796","description":"Nuns have often been portrayed as nascent feminists wielding an exceptional amount of power. In this formative study of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame - a religious community of uncloistered women established in Montreal in 1657 - Colleen Gray presents a more nuanced view of the foundations and exercise of power within the convent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGray focuses on the social, administrative, political, and spiritual dimensions of the lives of three Congrégation superiors - Marie Barbier, Marie-Josèphe Maugue-Garreau, and Marie Raizenne. By exploring the implications of the hierarchies of power within the convent and providing a thorough analysis of the convent's relationship with the social, religious, and governmental structures that surrounded it - taking into account both medieval and Catholic Reformation Europe and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canada - Gray reveals the paradoxes inherent in the position of a female superior within the male-dominated sphere of both the church and the larger secular community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796 not only reconstructs a vanished world but also provides great insight into the organization of institutional structures and the complex aspects of power within them.","brand":"McGill-Queens University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108707254512,"sku":"9780773574724","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780773574724_p0.jpg?v=1763660129","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780773574724","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}