The Women and Social Movements in the U.S. website seeks to broaden its coverage on women and religion in American history by publishing document projects and documents focusing on “Catholic Women and Social Movements.” Carol K. Coburn of Avila University, co-author of Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920 (1999), will serve as the editor of the initiative and will begin accepting proposals for document projects on this topic.The website currently offers a variety of projects concerning Protestant women, Native American women, African-American women, Jewish women, and most recently Catholic Women and Second Wave Feminism. To expand this important topic, we encourage proposals on Catholic laywomen or women religious from any time period in U.S. history.

We encourage document projects in the same format as those currently posted on the website. They pose a question and organize documents that address the question.

Examples of potential topics include:
• Gender and American Catholic women
• American Catholic women and social justice movements
• Catholic women and ordination
• Catholic women and Civil Rights activities
• Catholic sisters and the American West
• Catholic women’s colleges in the 20th Century
• Catholic women and Post-Vatican II organizations
• Sister Formation Conference
• Catholic sisters and war nursing
• Catholic women and suffrage

To discuss potential proposals contact Carol.Coburn@avila.edu
For more information and to see examples of document projects, please visit the Women and Social Movements website at: http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/