Introduction -- 1. From Wellesley College to the Lower East Side -- 2. Fighting to Save the City of New York -- 3. Neighbors and Teachers -- 4. Settlements Go South -- 5. More than Settlement Houses -- 6. Changes and Continuities -- Epilogue
Summary
This text examines a distinctive community of religious women whose primary focus was neither a teaching nor nursing/hospital administration. The Sisters of Christian Doctrine choose to live among the poor and to serve where other communities were either unwilling or unable
