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An important contribution. . . . With subtlety, insight, and detailed research, Cummings elucidates religion and gender in the Progressive Era by considering American Catholic women as important historical agents.--Journal of Religion <p/>

With brilliant insight, Kathleen Sprows Cummings transforms our understanding of Catholic women's history in the United States. Before 1960, she argues, Catholic women had more opportunities for leadership and education inside the church than outside of it. This is a landmark book that will change the way historians write about women in the Catholic Church. <br>-Catherine A. Brekus, editor of The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past

An important contribution. . . . Cummings's strategy of explicating the dual identity of American Catholic women through the lives of four 'exceptional' women works exceedingly well. She expertly weaves between biography and social history, expanding her analysis outward onto broad issues. . . . With subtlety, insight, and detailed research, Cummings elucidates religion and gender in the Progressive Era by considering American Catholic women as important historical agents. <br>- Journal of Religion

[Cummings] clearly demonstrates the centrality of Catholic women in the period's social transformations. <br> -The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

An important contribution. . . . Cummings's strategy of explicating the dual identity of American Catholic women through the lives of four 'exceptional' women works exceedingly well. She expertly weaves between biography and social history, expanding her

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Kathleen Sprows Cummings is assistant professor of American studies and associate director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.

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