Description
Suellen Hoy’s Good Hearts describes and analyzes the activities andcontributions of Catholic nuns in Chicago. Beginning with the coming ofwomen-non secular in 1846 and ending with the sisters’ social activism inthe 1960s, Good Hearts traces the advance and evolution of thesisters’ work and ministry that included education, health care, andsocial products and services. Contrary to standard portrayals of non secular asreclusive and conservative, the nuns in Good Hearts are revealed asdynamic, powerful agents of change. Catholic sisters lived at the edge, serving ill and poor immigrants in addition to the ones racially andreligiously unlike themselves, such as the uneducated black migrantsfrom the South