Bibliograph

New women of the old faith:, gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era, Kathleen Sprows Cummings

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New women of the old faith:, gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era, Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

New women of the old faith:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Sub title

gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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