| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 424 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- United States -- West -- History
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Catholic Church |
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Nuns -- United States -- West -- History
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- United States -- West -- History
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Monastic and religious life of women -- United States -- West -- History
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Monastic and religious life of women
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Monasticism and religious orders for women
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Nuns
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- Church history
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012005083 |
| ISBN |
9781469601618 |
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1469601613 |
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9780807837542 |
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0807837547 |
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