New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / / Kathleen Sprows Cummings

• Autore: Cummings Kathleen Sprows
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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.: 9910813614503321
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