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Autore |
Cummings Kathleen Sprows |
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Titolo |
New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0599-6 |
0-8078-8984-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women in the Catholic Church - United States - History |
Sex role - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History |
Sex role |
Progressivism (United States politics) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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; and Ka |
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