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Book/Printed Material Pursuing truth : how gender shaped Catholic education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

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Title

  • Pursuing truth : how gender shaped Catholic education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Summary

  • "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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Oates, Mary J., author

Created / Published

  • Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  College of Notre Dame of Maryland--History--20th century
  • -  Catholic women--Education (Higher)--Maryland--Baltimore--History--20th century
  • -  Catholic women's colleges--Maryland--Baltimore--History--20th century

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LD7251.B3842

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020036543

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Oates, Mary J., Author. Pursuing truth: how gender shaped Catholic education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. [Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press, 2021] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020036543/.

APA citation style:

Oates, M. J. (2021) Pursuing truth: how gender shaped Catholic education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. [Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020036543/.

MLA citation style:

Oates, Mary J., Author. Pursuing truth: how gender shaped Catholic education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. [Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press, 2021] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020036543/>.