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

Contributor(s): Schier, Tracy | Russett, Cynthia Eagle | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Description: vi, 439 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States | Catholic universities and colleges -- United States -- History | Women's colleges -- United States -- History | Catholic women -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 378/.071/273 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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 -- Into the future / Jeanne Knoerle and Tracy Schier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.