Carmen M. Mangion is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London

1 Introduction
2 Before the Council: post-war modernity and religious vocations
3 The modern girl and religious life
4 Governance, authority and '1968'
5 Relationships, generation discourse and the 'turn to self'
6 The world in the cloister and the nun in the world
7 Local and global: changing ministries
8 Becoming a woman
9 Conclusion
Index