Her doctoral thesis, Itineraries of meaning: Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic of the idea of the sacred, was completed in 1986.
[3] The 1970s had seen a rise of Christian feminism in Australian churches and White suggested that as a nun she had been untouched by this wave of feminism because, "[W]e were too busy to hear; we had too many responsibilities to feel powerless; we were encouraged to be anti-intellectual; we lived in a Catholic female ghetto largely shielded from the more crass aspects of sexism and the more enlightened aspects of ecumenism.
The journal was launched at the first Women and the Australian Church (WATAC) National Conference that was held in Sydney in August 1987.
[11] White's other contributions included journal articles and book chapters in edited volumes, in subject areas related to religion and gender, theology and feminism.
After White left the Sisters of St Brigid, she later married Graham Joseph English (16 September 1944 – 15 June 2021) and they had one child together.