Pursuing Truth : How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland / / Mary J. Oates.

• VerfasserIn: Oates, Mary J.,
• Language: English
• Series: Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) :; illustrations

"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.

Table of 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.