Veiled Desires

In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeon holed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience that revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. Sabine provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns onscreen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment. -- Back cover.