| The Quiet Revolutionaries: How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine Contributor(s): Hudson, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415651255 ISBN-13: 9780415651257 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Religion | Institutions & Organizations |
| Dewey: 271.91 |
| Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive history of women and healthcare in America. The fact that this community lived in a hostile, Protestant-dominated, industrial environment while submerged in a French-Canadian Catholic world of ethnicity, tradition and paternalism makes their accomplishments more compelling. |