Kathleen Sprows Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832493
- eISBN:
- 9781469605999
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889848_cummings
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, this book places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of ...
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American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, this book 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. It 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 anti-suffragist. The book uses each woman's story to explore how debates over Catholic identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of American gender roles.Less
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, this book 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. It 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 anti-suffragist. The book uses each woman's story to explore how debates over Catholic identity were intertwined with the renegotiation of American gender roles.
