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Catholic women's colleges in America [electronic resource] / edited by Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. - vi, 439 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


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Subjects--Corporate Names:
Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Catholic universities and colleges--History.--United States
Women's colleges--History.--United States
Catholic women--Education (Higher)--History.--United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: LC501 / .C3497 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 378/.071/273