{"product_id":"pursuing-truth-9781501753794","title":"Pursuing Truth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePursuing Truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life.\u003c\/b\u003e Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes these critical pedagogical practices by focusing on Notre Dame of Maryland University, formerly known as the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the first Catholic college in the United States to award female students four-year degrees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sisters and laywomen on the faculty and in the administration at Notre Dame of Maryland persevered in their work while facing challenges from the establishment of the Catholic Church, mainline Protestant churches, and secular institutions. \u003ci\u003ePursuing Truth\u003c\/i\u003e presents the stories of the institution's female founders, administrators, and professors whose labors led it through phases of diversification. The pattern of institutional development regarding the place of religious identity, gender and sexuality, and race that Oates finds at Notre Dame of Maryland is a paradigmatic story of change in US higher education. Similarly representative is her account of the school's effort, from the late 1960s to the present, to maintain its identity as a women's liberal arts college.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to generous funding from the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu\/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary J. Oates is Research Professor Emerita of Economics at Regis College and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Catholic Philanthropic Tradition in America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378011214098,"sku":"9781501753794","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ce63d97-e6aa-48b2-91ea-e2b03f19c099.jpg?v=1728639312","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pursuing-truth-9781501753794","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}