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Masterless Mistresses : The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 /
During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans and educated women and girls in literacy, numeracy and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance and authority in seventeenth-century France, the New World was less wel...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations.
- Introduction.
- Prelude : Old world origins : female piety and social imperatives in Europe.
- Part 1. Transplantations : the French legacy: 1. Making a match : the Ursuline mission to New Orleans
- 2. The order was well kept : creating and sustaining community
- 3. Inner spirit, outward signs : French feminine piety at work.
- Part 2. Transformations : old world to new: 4. Differences of nation and mentality : testing the bonds of community
- 5. It is custom of the country : the Ursuline encounter with slavery
- 6. The wages of zeal : change and the convent economy.
- Part 3. Confrontations : a Catholic colony meets a Protestant nation: 7. The Republic encounters the nun.
- Epilogue: A woman of masculine appearance and character : antebellum anti-Catholicism.
- Appendix 1. Convent population, 1727-1803
- Appendix 2. Ursuline slave families.
- Index.