Cummings, Kathleen Sprows.

New women of the old faith gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / [electronic resource] : Kathleen Sprows Cummings. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xvii, 278 p. : ill.

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

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Catholic Church--History.--United States


Women in the Catholic Church--History.--United States
Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History.
Sex role.
Progressivism (United States politics)


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