03021nam 2200637 a 450 991081361450332120200520144314.01-4696-0599-60-8078-8984-9(CKB)1000000000787198(EBL)454809(OCoLC)435639269(SSID)ssj0000210928(PQKBManifestationID)11196093(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210928(PQKBWorkID)10292273(PQKB)10912767(StDuBDS)EDZ0000865209(MdBmJHUP)muse23362(Au-PeEL)EBL454809(CaPaEBR)ebr10313969(MiAaPQ)EBC454809(EXLCZ)99100000000078719820080721d2009 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrNew women of the old faith gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era /Kathleen Sprows Cummings1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20091 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-7152-4 0-8078-3249-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.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.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 KaWomen in the Catholic ChurchUnited StatesHistorySex roleReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchHistorySex roleProgressivism (United States politics)Women in the Catholic ChurchHistory.Sex roleReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchHistory.Sex role.Progressivism (United States politics)282/.7308209034Cummings Kathleen Sprows1024679MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813614503321New women of the old faith4060953UNINA