CARMEN M. MANGION is a Senior Lecturer in the department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research examines the cultural and social history of gender and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. She is the author of Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age, Britain 1945-1990 (2020) and Contested Identities: Catholic Women Religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales (2008) and other publications on gender and religion in Britain’s nineteenth-century medical marketplace. Her current research examines the gendered nature of the Catholic medical missionary movement of the early twentieth century in both Britain and Ireland.  

c.mangion@bbk.ac.uk

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