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Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk

or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed

Maria Monk

1836

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Escaped Nuns

Why some antebellum reformers thought convents were incompatible with "true womanhood."

by Pete Cajka, Cassandra L. Yacovazzi via Religion in American History on June 17, 2019
Antecedent

Nativism, Violence, and the Origins of the Paranoid Style

How a lurid 19th-century memoir of sexual abuse produced one of the ugliest features of American politics.

by Mike Mariani via Slate on March 22, 2017

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Drawing of a theater performer looking off to the side.

How Love Conquered a Convent: Catholicism and Gender Disorder on the 1830s Stage

'Pet of the Petticoats' extends the reach of Anglo-Atlantic anti-Catholicism to the stage, illustrating the ways its tropes and anxieties moved across genres.

by Sara Lampert via Commonplace on September 7, 2022

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.

by Richard Hofstadter via Harper’s on November 1, 1964

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