Resumen de ‘To put into the field trained bands of women’: Margaret Fletcher and the Education of Catholic Lay Women to Engage in the Public Sphere in the Early Twentieth Century
This article is a response to the call by Watts for more research on women who strove to widen the educational opportunities of other women. It is also inspired by the work of Martin and Goodman in revealing the lives of previously unknown women educators.1 Catholic histories have largely focused on the male clergy, while women have only been considered as members of religious orders, leaving the lay woman invisible. Mangion has also challenged historians of women and religion to ‘analyse religion as an empowering belief system’2 rather than dismissing it as an institution which marginalised women.
