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New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era
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New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings.
ISBN
9780807832493 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832499 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xvii, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.
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.
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