Liberating Sanctuary

100 Years of Women's Education at the College of St. Catherine

Edited by Jane Lamm Carroll; Joanne Cavallaro and Sharon Doherty

One hundred years ago, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet founded a college designed to unite women’s intellectual and spiritual development: The College of St. Catherine, now St. Catherine’s University. Is such an institution, a women-built and women-led Catholic college, an anachronism today? How has a century of changes in the Catholic Church and women’s roles affected St. Catherine’s?
Addressing these and other questions in a scholarly and engaging manner, Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine challenges prevailing assumptions about the history of women’s education. The essays in this book, edited by Jane Lamm Carroll, Joanne Cavallaro, and Sharon Doherty, examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100 year history, linking the story through a central theme: the paradox of institutional goals that seek both to liberate and constrain women. Since its founding, St. Catherine's has promoted women's leadership and autonomy, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident, sometimes despite stated aims.

Lexington Books

Pages: 220 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7391-7090-8 • Hardback • November 2011 • $102.00 • (£78.00)

978-0-7391-7091-5 • eBook • December 2011 • $96.50 • (£74.00)

Subjects: Education / Higher, Education / Organizations & Institutions, Education / Student Life & Student Affairs, History / United States / General, Religion / Christianity / History, Religion / Institutions & Organizations, Religion / Sexuality & Gender Studies

Liberating Sanctuary

100 Years of Women's Education at the College of St. Catherine

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Summary

One hundred years ago, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet founded a college designed to unite women’s intellectual and spiritual development: The College of St. Catherine, now St. Catherine’s University. Is such an institution, a women-built and women-led Catholic college, an anachronism today? How has a century of changes in the Catholic Church and women’s roles affected St. Catherine’s?
Addressing these and other questions in a scholarly and engaging manner, Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women’s Education at the College of St. Catherine challenges prevailing assumptions about the history of women’s education. The essays in this book, edited by Jane Lamm Carroll, Joanne Cavallaro, and Sharon Doherty, examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100 year history, linking the story through a central theme: the paradox of institutional goals that seek both to liberate and constrain women. Since its founding, St. Catherine's has promoted women's leadership and autonomy, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident, sometimes despite stated aims.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 220 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7391-7090-8 • Hardback • November 2011 • $102.00 • (£78.00)

978-0-7391-7091-5 • eBook • December 2011 • $96.50 • (£74.00)

Subjects: Education / Higher, Education / Organizations & Institutions, Education / Student Life & Student Affairs, History / United States / General, Religion / Christianity / History, Religion / Institutions & Organizations, Religion / Sexuality & Gender Studies

Author

Jane LammCarroll is associate professor of history at St. Catherine University.
Joanee Cavallaro is chair of the English department and professor of linguistics and women's studies at St. Catherine University.
Sharon L. Doherty is professor of women's studies and anthropology, and director of the Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women at St. Catherine University.

Table of Contents

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