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. ; 25 cm.
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. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Excludes some or all of the images that were part of the original book.
Women in the Catholic Church--History.--United States Sex role--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--History. Sex role. Progressivism (United States politics)