| Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past Contributor(s): Hoy, Suellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252073010 ISBN-13: 9780252073014 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 271.900 |
| LCCN: 2005022121 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Locality - Chicago, Illinois - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Theometrics - Catholic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Suellen Hoy's Good Hearts describes and analyzes the activities andcontributions of Catholic nuns in Chicago. Beginning with the arrival ofwomen-religious in 1846 and ending with the sisters' social activism inthe 1960s, Good Hearts traces the development and evolution of thesisters' work and ministry that included education, health care, andsocial services. Contrary to conventional portrayals of religious asreclusive and conservative, the nuns in Good Hearts are revealed asdynamic, powerful agents of change. Catholic sisters lived on the edge, serving sick and poor immigrants as well as those racially andreligiously unlike themselves, such as the uneducated black migrantsfrom the South |
