LEADER 03024nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910778014403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0599-6 010 $a0-8078-8984-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787198 035 $a(EBL)454809 035 $a(OCoLC)435639269 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196093 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10292273 035 $a(PQKB)10912767 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000865209 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23362 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454809 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10313969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454809 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787198 100 $a20080721d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew women of the old faith$b[electronic resource] $egender and American Catholicism in the progressive era /$fKathleen Sprows Cummings 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-7152-4 311 $a0-8078-3249-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aAmerican 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 606 $aWomen in the Catholic Church$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSex role$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church$xHistory 606 $aSex role 606 $aProgressivism (United States politics) 615 0$aWomen in the Catholic Church$xHistory. 615 0$aSex role$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church$xHistory. 615 0$aSex role. 615 0$aProgressivism (United States politics) 676 $a282/.7308209034 700 $aCummings$b Kathleen Sprows$01024679 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778014403321 996 $aNew women of the old faith$93841811 997 $aUNINA