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Author Butler, Anne M., 1938-

Title Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrations
Contents Nuns for the West -- Travels -- The labor -- The finances -- Contests for control -- A woman for the West: Mother Katharine Drexel -- Ethnic intersections -- Nuns of the West
Summary Roman Catholic sisters first travelled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power. Moving to the West introduced significant changes for these women, including public employment and thoroughly unconventional monastic lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Catholic Church -- United States -- West -- History
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Nuns -- United States -- West -- History
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- West -- History
Monastic and religious life of women -- United States -- West -- History
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Monastic and religious life of women
Monasticism and religious orders for women
Nuns
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146151
West (U.S.) -- Church history
Subject West United States
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012005083
ISBN 9781469601618
1469601613
9780807837542
0807837547