New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

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New Women of the Old Faith K_\Lèm\ij`kpf]Efik_:Xifc`eXGi\jj Z_Xg\c_`cc bXk_c\\ejgifnjZldd`e^j ^\e[\iXe[Xd\i`ZXeZXk_fc`Z`jd`ek_\gif^i\jj`m\\iX new women old faith p g ! u i f ∫ 2009 the university of north carolina press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America This book has been made possible in part by support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame. Designed by Courtney Leigh Baker and set in Whitman with Sackers Gothic Display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Title page and chapter opening illustration ∫ iStockphoto.com/Grigory Bibikov The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cummings, Kathleen Sprows. New women of the old faith : gender and American Catholicism in the progressive era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8078-3249-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Women in the Catholic Church—United States—History. 2. Sex role—Religious aspects—Catholic Church—History. 3. Sex role. 4. Catholic Church—United States—History. 5. Progressivism (United States politics) I. Title. bx1407.w65c86 2009 282%.7308209034—dc22 2008031980 Parts of this work have been reprinted in revised form from ‘‘The ‘New Woman’ at the ‘University’: Gender and American Catholic Identity in the Progressive Era,’’ in The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, edited by Catherine A. Brekus, ∫ 2007 by The University of North Carolina Press, used by permission of the publisher, www.uncpress.unc.edu, and ‘‘We Owe It to Our Sex as Well as Our Religion: The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, the Ladies Auxiliary, and the Founding of Trinity College for Catholic Women, Washington, D.C.,’’ American Catholic Studies 115 (2004): 21–36. 13 12 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 for Thomas This page intentionally left blank ...