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Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesThe Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States

Women’s Higher Education in the United States: The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de... [This chapter explores the impact of the declining number of teaching sisters on Catholic schools and the steps taken by one group of sisters to preserve the identity and legacy of their institutions. During the nineteenth century, Catholic female teaching orders provided some of the most important sources of higher education for young women across the world. In America, female teaching orders increased dramatically from 1822 to 1920, with the number of nuns roughly doubling each decade. Several of these teaching orders, including the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, opened all-female boarding schools, day schools, charity schools, and colleges in Europe, the United States, South America, Asia, and Africa. By the late twentieth century however, this demographic trend changed dramatically. In the United States alone, the total number of sisters fell from around 180,000 in 1965 to roughly 50,000 in 2014—a 72 percent decline over a 50-year period. Using historical documents and oral history interviews with Sisters of Notre Dame from the Western Provence Center of the United States, Kim Tolley constructs an historical account of an important transition in Catholic female education, a shift that includes an acceptance and recognition of the necessity of working partnerships, not only with lay Catholics, but also with non-Catholic educators.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesThe Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series
Editors: Nash, Margaret A.
Tolley, Kim
Women’s Higher Education in the United States — Jul 29, 2017
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-1-137-59083-1
Pages
211 –232
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8_10
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[This chapter explores the impact of the declining number of teaching sisters on Catholic schools and the steps taken by one group of sisters to preserve the identity and legacy of their institutions. During the nineteenth century, Catholic female teaching orders provided some of the most important sources of higher education for young women across the world. In America, female teaching orders increased dramatically from 1822 to 1920, with the number of nuns roughly doubling each decade. Several of these teaching orders, including the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, opened all-female boarding schools, day schools, charity schools, and colleges in Europe, the United States, South America, Asia, and Africa. By the late twentieth century however, this demographic trend changed dramatically. In the United States alone, the total number of sisters fell from around 180,000 in 1965 to roughly 50,000 in 2014—a 72 percent decline over a 50-year period. Using historical documents and oral history interviews with Sisters of Notre Dame from the Western Provence Center of the United States, Kim Tolley constructs an historical account of an important transition in Catholic female education, a shift that includes an acceptance and recognition of the necessity of working partnerships, not only with lay Catholics, but also with non-Catholic educators.]

Published: Jul 29, 2017

Keywords: Religious Women; Nancy Beadie; American Catholic Women; Patriarchal Bargain; Catholic Identity

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