1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954533603321

Autore

Cummings Kathleen Sprows

Titolo

New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

979-88-908799-3-6

1-4696-0599-6

0-8078-8984-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

282/.7308209034

Soggetti

Women in the Catholic Church - United States - History

Sex role - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History

Sex role

Progressivism (United States politics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019104903321

Titolo

Anterior pituitary secretion and hormonal influences in water metabolism / / general editor for the Ciba Foundation, G.E.W. Wolstenholme ; assisted by Margaret P. Cameron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : J. & A. Churchill, 1952

ISBN

9786613679093

9781280768323

1280768320

9780470718797

047071879X

9780470716168

0470716169

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (466 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation colloquia on endocrinology ; ; v. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

CameronMargaret P

Disciplina

616.4/027

Soggetti

Pituitary gland - Secretions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of two colloquia held at the Ciba Foundation: the Colloquium on the Control of the Anterior Pituitary and Reciprocal Relationships between its Secretions and those of Target Organs, held July 9-13, 1951 and the Colloquium on the Effect of Steroids on Local and General Water Distribution, held Jan. 8-10, 1951.

Contains only book 1, Anterior pituitary secretion.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Anatomy, histology and cytology -- pt. 2. Control of secretions of the anterior pituitary -- pt. 3. Growth hormone -- pt. 4. Gonadotrophins -- pt. 5. Thyrotrophic hormone -- pt. 6. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone -- pt. 7. Lactogenic and mammogenic hormones.

Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well



known to scientists and clinicians around the world.