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Title

Catholic women's colleges in America / edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Schier, Tracy.
• Russett, Cynthia Eagle.

Description

vi, 439 p., [12] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Catholic universities and colleges > United States > History
• Women's colleges > United States > History
• Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States
• Catholic women > Education (Higher) > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-423) and index.

Contents

Faith, knowledge, and gender / Jill Ker Conway -- Colleges of religious women's congregations : the spiritual heritage / Monika K. Hellwig -- American Catholic colleges for women : historical origins / Kathleen A. Mahoney -- Colleges in context / Thomas M. Landy -- Faculties and what they taught / Karen Kennelly -- Philadelphia story : life at Immaculata, Rosemont, and Chestnut Hill / David R. Contosta -- Sisterhoods and Catholic higher education, 1890-1960 / Mary J. Oates -- Live minds, yearning spirits : the alumnae of colleges and universities founded by women religious / Jane C. Redmont -- Making it : stories of persistence and success / Dorothy M. Brown and Carol Hurd Green -- Way we are : the present relationship of religious congregations of women to the colleges they founded / Melanie M. Morey -- Conclusion, Into the future / Jeanne Knoerle and Tracy Schier.

Call Number

JFE 03-12963

ISBN

080186805X (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001001522

OCLC

46462642

Title

Catholic women's colleges in America / edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett.

Imprint

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-423) and index.

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Added Author

Schier, Tracy.

Russett, Cynthia Eagle.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-12963