| Description |
1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover; Contents; List of Figures1; Acknowledgments; Preface: The Daughters of Madame d'Youville; Introduction; Chapter One. "Everyone was poor"; Chapter Two. An Autumn Arrival; Chapter Three. The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Maine; Chapter Four. Religious and Ethnic Struggles; Chapter Five. Yankee Benevolence; Chapter Six. First Foundations; Chapter Seven. Portrait of a Patient; Chapter Eight. The Nuns and the Yankees; Chapter Nine. Beyond Health Care; Appendix A: Lewiston's Parish Statistics; Appendix B: Hospital General Sainte-Marie Patient Statistics1 |
| Summary |
The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive history of women and healthcare in America. The fact that this community lived in a hostile, Protestant-dominated, industrial environment while submerged in a French-Canadian Catholic world of ethnicity, tradition and paternalism makes their accomplishments more compelling |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lewiston (Me.) -- History -- 19th century
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Nuns -- Maine -- Lewiston -- History -- 19th century
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Soeurs grises -- Maine -- Lewiston -- History -- 19th century
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Nuns
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Maine
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Maine -- Lewiston
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203960332 |
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0203960335 |
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