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Author Butler, Anne M., 1938-

Title Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrations
data file
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.
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Language English.
Subject Catholic Church -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Catholic Church.
History.
Nuns -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Nuns.
Monasticism and religious orders for women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
Monastic and religious life of women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Monastic and religious life of women.
West (U.S.) -- History.
West (U.S.) -- Church history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
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)
1469601613 (electronic book)
9780807837542 (electronic book)
0807837547 (electronic book)
9780807835654
080783565X