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Tracing the development of social reform movements among American Catholicsfrom 1880 to 1925 Deirdre Moloney reveals how Catholic gender ideologiesemerging middleclass values and ethnic identities shaped the goals andactivities of lay activists.Rather than simply appropriate American reform models ethnic Catholicsparticularly Irish and German Catholics drew extensively on Europeantraditions as they worked to establish settlement houses promote temperanceand aid immigrants and the poor. Catholics also differed significantly fromtheir Protestant counterparts in defining which reform efforts were appropriatefor women. For example while women played a major role in the Protestanttemperance movement beginning in the midnineteenth century Catholictemperance remained primarily a male movement in America. Gradually howeverwomen began to carve out a significant role in Catholic charitable and reformefforts.The first work to highlight the wideranging contributions of the Catholiclaity to Progressiveera reform the book shows how lay groups competed withProtestant reformers and at times even challenged members of the Catholichierarchy. It also explores the tension that existed between the desire todemonstrate the compatibility of Catholicism with American values and the wishto preserve the distinctiveness of Catholic life. «
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