Rebecca L Lester

Jesus in Our Wombs - Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent

Jesus in Our Wombs - Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent

Cry from the Pentagon

My patriotism became more than just standing for the national anthem, holding my right hand over my heart while repeating the Pledge of Allegiance, or placing a bumper sticker on my car that read, 'Proud to Be an American.' Imagine hearing 'a plane has crashed into the Pentagon,' knowing your daught...

A 9/11 Mother's Journey of Grief

In A 9-11 Mother’s Journey of Grief, author Rebecca Lester Lightbourn replays the events surrounding her families’ experience in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Their search and ultimate recovery of the author’s daughter, Samantha, serves as a poignant tribute t...

How I Fight My Mental Illness

Millions of people struggle with mental illness everyday. Most don't talk about it. Most are afraid of being torn down for it. They go by quietly, not saying a word in fear that their illness will lead to nonacceptance from others. The lucky ones can control it. Many can't. My mother is one of the l...

Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)

In Jesus in Our Wombs, Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants—young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork i...