New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �2009.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780807889848
- 0807889849
- 9781469605999
- 1469605996
- Catholic Church -- United States -- History
- Catholic Church
- Women in the Catholic Church -- United States -- History
- Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History
- Sex role
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Women in the Catholic Church
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Sex role
- Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Women in the Catholic Church
- United States
- 282/.7308209034 22
- BX1407.W65 C86 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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