The Quiet Revolutionaries

How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine

• Author(s): Susan Pearman Hudson,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 186
• ISBN_10: 0415978343
  ISBN_13: 9780415978347
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / United States / General , History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) , Religion / Christianity / Catholic ,

Description:... 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 fact 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.