LEADER 03998nam 22005055 450 001 9910552761403321 005 20230629231206.0 010 $a1-5017-5380-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501753800 035 $a(CKB)5450000000037763 035 $a(DE-B1597)571148 035 $a(OCoLC)1191457767 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501753800 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6317878 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6317878 035 $a(EXLCZ)995450000000037763 100 $a20210421h20212021 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPursuing Truth $eHow Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland /$fMary J. Oates 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) $c11 b&w halftones, 1 map 225 0 $aCushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction Women's Education and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland -- $tChapter 1 American Catholics and Female Higher Education Founding Catholic Women's Colleges -- $tChapter 2 Women Educating Women Catholic Ways and Means -- $tChapter 3 Divided or Diverse? Questions of Class, Race, and Religious Life -- $tChapter 4 Educating Catholic Women The Liberal and Practical Arts at the College of Notre Dame -- $tChapter 5 Sectarian or Free? Catholic Identity on Trial in the 1960s and 1970s -- $tChapter 6 "Convent Colleges" Social Mores and Educated Women -- $tConclusion A Catholic Women's Liberal Arts College -- $tAbbreviations and Archives Consulted -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Pursuing Truth, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amidst slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life. Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on and sometimes positioned themselves against elite secular colleges. Oates describes these critical pedagogical practices by focusing on Notre Dame of Maryland University, formerly known as Notre Dame of Maryland-the first Catholic college in America to award female students four-year degrees. The sisters and lay women on the faculty and administration of Notre Dame of Maryland persevered in their work while facing challenges from the establishment of the Catholic Church, mainline Protestant churches, and secular institutions. Pursuing Truth presents the stories of female founders, administrators, and professors whose labors led the institution through phases of diversification. The pattern of institutional development regarding the place of religious identity, gender and sexuality, and race that Oates finds at Notre Dame of Maryland is a paradigmatic story of change in American higher education. Similarly representative is her account of the college's effort, from the late 1960s to the present, to maintain its identity as a women's liberal arts college. 410 0$aCushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America 606 $aCatholic women$xEducation (Higher)$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCatholic women's colleges$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEDUCATION / History$2bisacsh 610 $aSchool Sisters of Notre Dame, first Catholic college for women in US, Catholic higher education, history of women's liberal arts colleges. 615 0$aCatholic women$xEducation (Higher)$xHistory 615 0$aCatholic women's colleges$xHistory 615 7$aEDUCATION / History. 676 $a378.752/6 700 $aOates$b Mary J., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01146105 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552761403321 996 $aPursuing Truth$92686733 997 $aUNINA