New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummings, Kathleen Sprows.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the Catholic Church--United States--History.

Women in the Catholic Church.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History.

Sex role.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Catholic Church--United States--History.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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; and Ka

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908799-3-6

1-4696-0599-6

0-8078-8984-9

OCLC:

435639269