Table of Contents
Introduction: Taking Catholic Women Seriously
Joanne Cavallaro, Jane Lamm Carroll, and Sharon Doherty
Section I: Liberating Visions, Remarkable Lives
1. Extravagantly Visionary Leadership: The Irelands and Mother Antonia McHugh
Jane Lamm Carroll
2. Portrait of a Daughter of St. Joseph: Sister Jeanne Marie Bonnett
John Fleming
3. Opening Doors: Sister AJ and the Minneapolis Campus
Deborah Churchill and Thelma Obah
4. Renewing the Meaning of a Women’s College: Identity and Standpoint in the 1970s
Sharon Doherty and Catherine Pribyl Lupori
Section II: Intellectual Life: In and Out of the Classroom
5. What a Woman Should Know, What a Woman Can Be: Curriculum as Prism
Joanne Cavallaro, Jane Lamm Carroll, and Lynne Gildensoph
6. Theology Fit for Women: Religious Wisdom, St. Catherine’s Style
Russell Connors, Joyce Dahlberg, Catherine Litecky, CSJ, MaryLou Logsdon, and Thomas West
7. Communion with Books: The Double Life of Literature
Cecilia Konchar Farr
Section III: Unique Legacy: Faculty and Student Experiences
8. Learning and Earning: The Work-Study Experience
Julie Balamut and Virginia Steinhagen
9. Possumus: Sisters’ Education in Feminism
Mary Alice Muellerleile and Joan Mitchell, CSJ
Postscript: Questions for the Twenty-First Century
Sharon Doherty, Jane Lamm Carroll, and Joanne Cavallaro
Bibliography
Contributors
Index