Catholic women's colleges in America / edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schier, Tracy.

Russett, Cynthia Eagle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic universities and colleges--United States--History.

Catholic universities and colleges.

Women's colleges--United States--History.

Women's colleges.

Catholic women--Education (Higher)--United States--History.

Catholic women.

Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Redmont, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; Cynthia Russett, Yale University; Tracy Schier, Boston College.

Contents:

Faith, knowledge, and gender / Jill Ker Conway

Colleges of religious women's congregations : the spiritual heritage / Monika K. Hellwig

American Catholic colleges for women : historical origins / Kathleen A. Mahoney

Colleges in context / Thomas M. Landy

Faculties and what they taught / Karen Kennelly

Philadelphia story : life at Immaculata, Rosemont, and Chestnut Hill / David R. Contosta

Sisterhoods and Catholic higher education, 1890-1960 / Mary J. Oates

Live minds, yearning spirits : the alumnae of colleges and universities founded by women religious / Jane C. Redmont

Making it : stories of persistence and success / Dorothy M. Brown and Carol Hurd Green

Way we are : the present relationship of religious congregations of women to the colleges they founded / Melanie M. Morey

Conclusion, Into the future / Jeanne Knoerle and Tracy Schier.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7766-0

OCLC:

923191214