02852oam 22005414a 450 991052466680332120230621135938.01-5017-5379-7(CKB)5590000000443461(OCoLC)1191457767(MdBmJHUP)muse93044(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69520(EXLCZ)99559000000044346120200814h20212021 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPursuing TruthHow Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland /Mary J. OatesCornell University Press1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) illustrations ;Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America1-5017-5381-9 Introduction : Women's Education and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland -- American Catholics and Female Higher Education : Founding Catholic Women's Colleges -- Women Educating Women : Catholic Ways and Means -- Divided or Diverse? Questions of Class, Race, and Religious Life -- Educating Catholic Women : The Liberal and Practical Arts at the College of Notre Dame -- Sectarian or Free? Catholic Identity on Trial in the 1960s and 1970s -- 'Convent Colleges ': Social Mores and Educated Women -- Conclusion : A Catholic Women's Liberal Arts College."In Pursuing Truth, Mary Oates considers the history of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University), the first Catholic college in America to award the four-year baccalaureate degree to women. This book adds needed depth to the historiography of gendered higher education in the United States by exploring the struggle for equal access to Catholic higher education"--Provided by publisher.Catholic women's collegesfast(OCoLC)fst01736643Catholic womenEducation (Higher)fast(OCoLC)fst00849286Catholic women's collegesMarylandBaltimoreHistory20th centuryCatholic womenEducation (Higher)MarylandBaltimoreHistory20th centuryMarylandBaltimorefastHistoryCatholic EducationWomenEducation of WomenReligious EducationMarylandCatholic women's collegesCatholic womenEducation (Higher)Catholic women's collegesHistoryCatholic womenEducation (Higher)HistoryOates Mary J.1146105MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524666803321Pursuing Truth2686733UNINA