Pursuing Truth : How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Pursuing Truth How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

In Pursuing Truth, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amidst slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life. Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modele...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Oates, Mary J., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2021]
Colección:Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
Materias:
Catholic women > Education (Higher) > Maryland > Baltimore > History > 20th century.
Catholic women's colleges > Maryland > Baltimore > History > 20th century.
EDUCATION / History.
School Sisters of Notre Dame, first Catholic college for women in US, Catholic higher education, history of women's liberal arts colleges.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Women's Education and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland
  • Chapter 1 American Catholics and Female Higher Education Founding Catholic Women's Colleges
  • Chapter 2 Women Educating Women Catholic Ways and Means
  • Chapter 3 Divided or Diverse? Questions of Class, Race, and Religious Life
  • Chapter 4 Educating Catholic Women The Liberal and Practical Arts at the College of Notre Dame
  • Chapter 5 Sectarian or Free? Catholic Identity on Trial in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Chapter 6 "Convent Colleges" Social Mores and Educated Women
  • Conclusion A Catholic Women's Liberal Arts College
  • Abbreviations and Archives Consulted
  • Notes
  • Index

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