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Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past

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In the book "Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past," Suellen Hoy takes a look at the kinds of work that nuns have been involved with over the years. She focuses on sisters/nuns in Chicago, but much of what she says could be said about so many other sisters and nuns across the United States. These women are presented as dynamic and powerful forces of change in society. They emphasized the importance of education, and showed how it could be used to move upwards in society, and could also help move equality forward. Very interesting, and very "readable" book.

Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters In Chicago's Past by Suellen Hoy (Guest Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame) is an introduction to the history of influential women in the Chicago's Catholic community. Ably compiling a concise biographically anthology as the basis for an in-depth study of meticulous scholarship, Good Hearts offers readers the wisdom of the nuns spanning a time period from the mid-1800's through the twentieth century, and with a particularly focus on the era surrounding the social and cultural issues of the 1960's and the activism contributed by Catholic women. Also available in a hardcover edition (0252030575, $50.00) Good Hearts is informative and recommended reading for non-specialist general readers with an interest in Chicago history, Women's Studies, the American Catholic church, and the historical influence of Catholic women in American social reforms.