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Pursuing truth : how gender shaped Catholic education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland /

"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...

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Main Author: Oates, Mary J. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America
Subjects:
College of Notre Dame of Maryland > History > 20th century.
Catholic women > Education (Higher) > Maryland > Baltimore > History > 20th century.
Catholic women's colleges > Maryland > Baltimore > History > 20th century.
EDUCATION / History.
Catholic women's colleges.
Catholic women > Education (Higher)
Maryland > Baltimore.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501753800
1501753800
9781501753817
1501753819