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New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.
Van Pelt Library BX1407.W65 C86 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummings, Kathleen Sprows.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--United States--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- History.
- Women in the Catholic Church.
- United States.
- Women in the Catholic Church--United States--History.
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History.
- Sex role.
- Progressivism (United States politics).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807832499
- 9780807832493
- OCLC:
- 237199162
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