Quiet Revolutionaries e-bog
200,69 DKK
(inkl. moms 250,86 DKK)
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, Protes...
E-bog
200,69 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
13 september 2013
Længde
206 sider
Genrer
1KBBEN
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781135519599
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.