New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era by Cummings, Kathleen Sprows

New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807871522)

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Format: Paperback
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New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era by Cummings, Kathleen Sprows

New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

$37.50
New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era by Cummings, Kathleen Sprows

New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

$37.50
Format: Paperback
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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 Katherine Eleanor Conway, a Boston editor, public figure, and antisuffragist. Cummings uses each woman's story to explore how debates over Catholic identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of American gender roles.



Author: Kathleen Sprows Cummings
ISBN-10: 0807871524
ISBN-13: 9780807871522
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2010
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d

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