Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: A History of Care; Chapter Two: Caring for Roosje; Chapter Three: Men in Association: Class and Charity; Chapter Four: Ladies and Housemaids: Gender and Charity; Chapter Five: Powerful and Empowering Care: Confession and Charity; Chapter Six: From the Viewpoint of Care Receivers; Chapter Seven: The Care Vision in the Normative Texts; Chapter Eight: Caring for the Children of God; Chapter Nine: The Making of Charitable History; Chapter Ten: The Ethics of Charitable Care
List of Superior Generals of the Poor Sisters of the Divine Child, or Sisters of 'The Providence'Glossary of Religious Terms; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Analyses the practice of Catholic nuns in Amsterdam in the 19th and 20th century. This book focuses on the ambiguous ascetic spiritual discourse that underpinned their work: it encouraged charity as solidarity with strangers, but caused intense emotional distance too
