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Autore: | Cummings Kathleen Sprows |
Titolo: | New women of the old faith [[electronic resource] ] : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings |
Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina: | 282/.7308209034 |
Soggetto topico: | Women in the Catholic Church - United States - History |
Sex role - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History | |
Sex role | |
Progressivism (United States politics) | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | New women of the old faith |
ISBN: | 1-4696-0599-6 |
0-8078-8984-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778014403321 |
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