id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 1544bp02253 Natalie Sargent Peculiar Positions of Power: Laywomen as Good Americans and Good Catholics, 1854-1907 2019 .txt text/plain 249 8 30 This dissertation explores laywomen's contributions in four key areas of U.S. Catholic history during the nineteenth century. Second, by featuring laywomen as protagonists, the project demonstrates that the transnational turn in U.S. Catholic history need not be defined by clergy, religious orders, or the longstanding immigrant paradigm long dominant in the field. cache/1544bp02253.txt txt/1544bp02253.txt