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Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781469601618
  • 1469601613
  • 9780807837542
  • 0807837547
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Across God's frontiers.DDC classification:
  • 271/.90078 23
LOC classification:
  • BX4220.U6 B88 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)464091

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.

Print version record.

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.

English.