Gender and Sexualities in Education
A Reader
Series:
Edited By Elizabeth J. Meyer and Dennis Carlson
2. Impossible Women: Saints, Sinners, and the Gendered Mythology in a Catholic School
Introduction
Extract
Chapter 2
Impossible Women
Saints, Sinners, and the Gendered Mythology in a Catholic School
Kevin Burke
I had to go down to the office ’cause she decided to be a bitch and say I was out of uniform. Welcome to daycare, Dr. Burke.
—Donnie1
Girls ruin school. ’Cause here we can just do whatever we want and not worry about it. I wouldn’t go to co-ed school.
—Luke
‘Priests for Life’ is a ministry of life issues [that] works for liberty to express faith without the government remanding it…abortion is like a hurricane because it can spawn tornadoes…everyone under 37 years of age didn’t have the right to live in their first nine months…we live in a culture that says, ‘I’ll do what I please,’ and 97% of abortions are for convenience anyway.
—Fr. Denis
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