Women, faith and fetes : Essays in the history of women and the Church in Australia /

Main Author:	Willis, Sabine.
Published:	Melbourne : Dove Communications, 1977
Series:	Oikoumene
Subjects:	AUSTRALIA - CHURCH HISTORY. WOMEN IN CHRISTIANITY. WOMEN AND RELIGION.
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Table of Contents:

1. Faith and fetes: women and the history of the churches in Australia /? Beverley Kingston 2. They never marry: the life of Mother Vincent Whitty /? Frances O'Donoghue 3. Christian temperance and social reform: the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria, 1887-1912 /? Anthea Hyslop 4. 'I used to quote St. Paul . . . ' The life of Mary Andrews /? Sue Bellamy 5. Quietly, without fuss: Catholic religious sisters in Tasmania /? Shirley King 6. Margaret Holmes: larger than the roles she played /? Rosalie McCutcheon 7. Matron, maid and missionary: the work of Anglican women in Australia /? Ruth Teale 8. A gust of epic: the life of Mother Mary Sheldon /? Clare Percy-Dove 9. The panacea of prohibition: the reaction of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria to the Great War /? Judith Smart 10. The original sin, submission as survival: women religious in the early Maitland Diocese /? Maureen Purcell.