New women of the old faith gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era - Cummings, Kathleen Sprows; NetLibrary, Inc. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: 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); Electronic books