| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Chiefly among women : the old faith, the new woman, and the creation of a usable past -- Enlarging our lives : higher education, Americanism, and Trinity College for Catholic women -- The wageless work of paradise : Catholic sisters, professionalization, and the school question -- The morbid consciousness of womanhood : Catholicism, antisuffrage, and the limits of sisterhood |
| Summary |
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the "New Woman" and Catholics' struggle to define their place in American culture. Cummings highlights four women: Chicago-based journalist Margaret Buchanan Sullivan; Sister Julia McGroarty, SND, founder of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., one of the first Catholic women's colleges; Philadelphia educator Sister Assisium McEvoy, SSJ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- United States -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Catholic Church. fast (OCoLC)fst00531720 |
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History
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Sex role.
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Women in the Catholic Church -- United States -- History
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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sex role.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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Sex role.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Women in the Catholic Church.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807889848 |
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0807889849 |
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9781469605999 |
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1469605996 |
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