Paola Di Cori
WSRP Research Associate 1982–83
Home institution
University of Urbino
Research project
Religious Rituals, Body Symbols, and Female Gender Identity: A Comparative Study of the Catholic Devotion to the Sacred Heart in 20th C. Italy and the United States
Historical analysis of the relationship between symbolic religious imagery and women's gender identity within mass Catholic women's movements, and of religious and body symbols as social metaphors.