id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2514nk34x5s Jillian P. Plummer Saving Latin America: Catholic Sisters, the Cold War, and Liberation Theology, 1946-1985 2019 .txt text/plain 238 6 17 While current scholarship on liberation theology emphasizes the importance of male authors and priests, my dissertation shows how women participated in the liberation theology movement and also implemented its theological praxis across the United States, even though their formal roles in the group remained restricted because of their status as women. I argue that Catholic sisters' encounter with the Peruvian critiques of development—especially those distilled in liberation theology—provided missionary sisters with the language to criticize their own charitable aid efforts in Peru. cache/2514nk34x5s.txt txt/2514nk34x5s.txt