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Pursuing Truth: How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland
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Pursuing Truth: How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland
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Mary J. Oates
2021
Published by:
Cornell University Press
Series:
Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
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In
Pursuing Truth
, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life.
Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes these critical pedagogical practices by focusing on Notre Dame of Maryland University, formerly known as the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the first Catholic college in the United States to award female students four-year degrees.
The sisters and laywomen on the faculty and in the administration at Notre Dame of Maryland persevered in their work while facing challenges from the establishment of the Catholic Church, mainline Protestant churches, and secular institutions.
Pursuing Truth
presents the stories of the institution's female founders, administrators, and professors whose labors led it through phases of diversification. The pattern of institutional development regarding the place of religious identity, gender and sexuality, and race that Oates finds at Notre Dame of Maryland is a paradigmatic story of change in US higher education. Similarly representative is her account of the school's effort, from the late 1960s to the present, to maintain its identity as a women's liberal arts college.
Thanks to generous funding from the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
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Cover
Half-Title Page, Series Page
pp. i-ii
Title Page
pp. iii
pp. iv
Dedication
pp. v-vi
Contents
pp. vii-viii
Acknowledgments
pp. ix-xii
Introduction: Women’s Education and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland
pp. 1-9
1. American Catholics and Female Higher Education: Founding Catholic Women’s Colleges
pp. 10-34
2. Women Educating Women: Catholic Ways and Means
pp. 35-63
3. Divided or Diverse? Questions of Class, Race, and Religious Life
pp. 64-89
4. Educating Catholic Women: The Liberal and Practical Arts at the College of Notre Dame
pp. 90-121
5. Sectarian or Free? Catholic Identity on Trial in the 1960s and 1970s
pp. 122-152
6. “Convent Colleges”: Social Mores and Educated Women
pp. 153-181
Conclusion: A Catholic Women’s Liberal Arts College
pp. 182-206
List of Abbreviations and Archives Consulted
pp. 207-208
Notes
pp. 209-272
Index
pp. 273-284
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ISBN
9781501753817
Related ISBN(s)
9781501753794, 9781501753800
DOI
10.1353/book.83169
MARC Record
OCLC
1191457767
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2021-04-12
Language
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Purchase
2023
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