TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cummings,Kathleen Sprows
TI  - New women of the old faith: gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era 
SN  - 9780807889848
AV  - BX1407.W65 C86 2009eb
U1  - 282/.7308209034 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Église catholique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - Women in the Catholic Church
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - Femmes dans l'Église catholique
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Progressisme
KW  - sex role
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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