New women of the old faith
Subtitle: gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era
By: Kathleen Sprows Cummings.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780807832493
Subjects: Catholic Church -- United States -- History; Women in the Catholic Church -- United States -- History; Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History; Sex role; Progressivism (United States politics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chiefly among women : the old faith, the new woman, and the creation of a usable past; title: Enlarging our lives : higher education, Americanism, and Trinity College for Catholic women; title: The wageless work of paradise : Catholic sisters, professionalization, and the school question; title: The morbid consciousness of womanhood : Catholicism, anti-suffrage, and the limits of sisterhood.