TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Anne M.
TI  - Across God's frontiers: Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 
SN  - 9781469601618
AV  - BX4220.U6 B88 2012eb
U1  - 271/.90078 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - United States
KW  - West
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Nuns
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Church history
KW  - États-Unis (Ouest)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - West United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Nuns for the West -- Travels -- The labor -- The finances -- Contests for control -- A woman for the West: Mother Katharine Drexel -- Ethnic intersections -- Nuns of the West
N2  - Roman Catholic sisters first travelled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power. Moving to the West introduced significant changes for these women, including public employment and thoroughly unconventional monastic lives
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