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Clarissa W. Atkinson

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In an earlier life, I taught and wrote books and articles about medieval history, including "The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages" and "Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe."

More recently I turned my attention to the 1950s and found Claudia Cumberbatch Jones, the black radical feminist who was deported from the U.S. in the McCarthy years. In London she founded and edited the West Indian Gazette. I published an essay about her in the Women’s Review of Books in 2006: “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country.” In 2008-2009 I was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University conducting further research on Claudia Jones.

Lately I’ve been thinking and writing about coming of age in t ...more

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	The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality (The Harvard Women's Studies in Religion Series) by Clarissa W. Atkinson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Margaret R. Miles, Constance H. Buchanan 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture by Clarissa W. Atkinson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Margaret R. Miles (Editor), Constance H. Buchanan (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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