Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrations |
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Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Nuns for the West -- Travels -- The labor -- The finances -- Contests for control -- A woman for the West: Mother Katharine Drexel -- Ethnic intersections -- Nuns of the West. |
Summary |
Roman Catholic sisters first travelled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. Butler traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, she demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power. Moving to the West introduced significant changes for these women, including public employment and thoroughly unconventional monastic lives. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Catholic Church -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Catholic Church. |
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History. |
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Nuns -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Nuns. |
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Monasticism and religious orders for women. |
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Monastic and religious life of women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Monastic and religious life of women. |
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- Church history.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Butler, Anne M., 1938- Across God's frontiers. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012 9780807835654 (DLC) 2012005083 (OCoLC)778990721 |
ISBN |
9781469601618 (electronic book) |
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1469601613 (electronic book) |
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9780807837542 (electronic book) |
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0807837547 (electronic book) |
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9780807835654 |
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080783565X |
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