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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2007
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Good Hearts
Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past

By Suellen Hoy
(Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp xiv, 242. Photographs, notes, index. Paperbound, $22.00.)

Suellen Hoy, guest professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, has written an important collection of essays on the history of the nuns of Chicago. Hoy's work takes us on an intellectual journey, following the path of the nuns from the 1846 arrival of five Sisters of Mercy (the first community of nuns in the city) to the highly visible efforts of the nuns who took part in the civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s. Along the way, she establishes a rightful place for these women in the historical discussion of urban women activists. As American academics have been largely uncomfortable with, or ignorant of, the role of religious leaders in shaping our modern cities, historians have not yet adequately documented these stories. Hoy's collection goes a long way towards remedying this oversight. As she forcefully argues, the service provided to the poor by Catholic sisters predates the labor of Jane Addams's Hull House and deserves more recognition than it garnered previously. . . .
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