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The Quiet Revolutionaries: How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
The Quiet Revolutionaries How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston Maine - Studies in American Popular History and Culture Author:Susan Hudson 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 f... more »act 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.« less