TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oates,Mary J.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Pursuing Truth : : How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland / 
T2  - Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America
SN  - 9781501753817
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - College of Notre Dame of Maryland
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Catholic women's colleges
KW  - fast
KW  - Catholic women
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Baltimore
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction : Women's Education and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland -- American Catholics and Female Higher Education : Founding Catholic Women's Colleges -- Women Educating Women : Catholic Ways and Means -- Divided or Diverse? Questions of Class, Race, and Religious Life -- Educating Catholic Women : The Liberal and Practical Arts at the College of Notre Dame -- Sectarian or Free? Catholic Identity on Trial in the 1960s and 1970s -- 'Convent Colleges ': Social Mores and Educated Women -- Conclusion : A Catholic Women's Liberal Arts College; Open Access
N2  - "In Pursuing Truth, Mary Oates considers the history of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University), the first Catholic college in America to award the four-year baccalaureate degree to women. This book adds needed depth to the historiography of gendered higher education in the United States by exploring the struggle for equal access to Catholic higher education"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83169/
ER  -