Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920
- ISBN-10
- 0807847747
- ISBN-13
- 9780807847749
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 327
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Authors
- Martha Smith, Carol Coburn
Description
Made doubly marginal by their gender and by their religion, American nuns have rarely been granted serious scholarly attention. Instead, their lives and achievements have been obscured by myths or distorted by stereotypes. Placing nuns into the mainstream
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