Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Cummings, Kathleen Sprows.

New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) : illustrations -

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


English.

ISBN: 9780807889848 0807889849 9781469605999 1469605996

Source: 22573/ctt626c5 JSTOR

LCCN: 2008031980

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA906758 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Catholic Church--History.--United States
Église catholique--Histoire.--États-Unis
Catholic Church

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women in the Catholic Church--History.--United States
Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History.
Sex role.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Femmes dans l'Église catholique--Histoire.--États-Unis
Rôle selon le sexe--Aspect religieux--Église catholique--Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Progressisme--États-Unis.
sex role.
RELIGION--Christianity--Catholic.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Sex role
Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
Women in the Catholic Church

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: BX1407.W65 / C86 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 282/.7308209034