Dorothy Day

15 of the Best Books and Articles on: Dorothy Day

as selected by Questia School librarians.

1.

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays
by William J. Thorn, Phillip M. Runkel, Susan Mountin. 582 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Still Provoking Us after All These Years: Dorothy Day of and outside Her Time

Contemporary Students and Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Archives

Angeli Tui Sancti Habitent En Ea, Qui Nos in Pace Custodiant

Part I: The Catholic Worker and History

The Significance of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement in American Catholicism

Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement: Saints and Philosophers Who Influenced Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

Part II: The Catholic Worker and the Catholic Church

Blowing the Dynamite of the Church: Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist Perspective

Diversity, Plurality and Ambiguity: Anarchism in the Catholic Worker Movement

What's Catholic about the Catholic Worker Movement? Then and Now

Dorothy Day, Rebel Catholic: Living in a State of Permanent Dissatisfaction with the Church

The Catholic Worker Movement: toward a Theology of Liberation for First World Disciples

Roll Away the Stone

Part III: The Nonviolence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

Beyond the Ballot Box: the Catholic Worker Movement and Nonviolent Direct Action

American Myth and the Gospel: Manifest Destiny and Dorothy Day's Nonviolence

The Anti-War Politics of Christ

Part IV: Dorothy Day's Political and Social Thought

Radical Orthodoxy: Dorothy Day's Challenge to Liberal America

The Way of Lovedorothy Day and the American Right

A Cultural Context for Understanding Dorothy Day's Social and Political Thought

Mass Production

Part V: Work and the Economy

Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker, and the Labor Movement

John Cort and Catholic Social Action since the New Deal

Dorothy Day and the Transformation of Work: Lessons for Labor

Peter Maurin, the Distributists and the Nature of Work

Into Their Labors: Work, Technology, and the Sacramentalism of Dorothy Day

Wildcat Musings: (A Poem in Solidarity with the Workers of the World & in Liquidarity with the Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Streams, Clouds, and Rain …)

Part VI: Dorothy Day's Writing and Rhetoric

The Radical's Paradox: a Reflection on Dorothy Day's “legendary” Resistance to Canonization

The Last Word Is Love: Activism, Spirituality, and Writing in the Life of Dorothy Day

Well Paid Slaves

Part VII: Dorothy Day's Spirituality

Identity, Community, and Crisis: the Conversion Narratives of Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton: Overview of a Work in Progress

Dorothy Day: Citizen of the Kingdom

Proverb

Part VIII: Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin's Ideal of Farming Communes

Why Peter Maurin Matters

Down on the Farm and Up to Heaven: Catholic Worker Farm Communes and the Spiritual Virtues of Farming

Dorothy Day's View of Peter Maurin

The Hundred-Foot Fiberglass Hiawatha

Part IX: Ammon Hennacy

An Anarchist Joins the Catholic Church: Why Ammon Hennacy Became a Catholic

Part X: Catholic Worker Pacifism, 1933–1945

The Way of Love: Pacifism and the Catholic Worker Movement, 1933–1939

Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ in the Second World War

We Are Still Pacifists: Dorothy Day's Pacifism during World War II

An Uneasy Community: Catholics in Civilian Public Service during World War II

Cultural Exchange

Part XI: Ecumenical Perspectives

The Shakers and the Program and Practice of the Catholic Worker

The Catholic Worker, the Jews, and the Future of Ecumenical Religiosity

Protestant Responses to Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

The Catholic Worker and Socially Engaged Buddhism: a Dialogue

Where Are the Songs of Spring?: (For Allen Ginsberg)

Part XII: Personal Narratives

Dorothy Day Stories

Threads of Life: Telling the Story

A Long Loneliness: Metaphors of Conversion within the Catholic Worker Movement

Dorothy Day: Saint and Troublemaker

The Lazarus Dream Forgiven: (For Todd Duncan)

Bibliography

Authors

Essays Published Elsewhere

Index
2.

Loaves and Fishes
by Dorothy Day. 224 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface

Part I: Beginnings Are Always Exciting

Chapter 2: Everyone's Paper

Chapter 3: Houses of Hospitality

Chapter 4: Communitarian Farms

Chapter 5: The War Years

Part II: Poverty and Precarity

Chapter 7: The Insulted and the Injured

Chapter 8: A Baby Is Always Born with a Loaf of Bread Under Its Arm

Chapter 9: Peter Maurin, Personalist

Chapter 10: Picture of a Prophet

Chapter 11: Spiritual Advisors

Chapter 12: Editors Also Cook

Part IV: Things That Happen

Chapter 14: The Bodenheims

Chapter 15: Strange Visitors, Distinguished Visitors

Chapter 16: The "Cold Turkey" Cure

Part V: Love in Practice

Chapter 18: Peter Maurin Farm

Acknowledgments
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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
by Bob Fitch, Nancy L. Roberts. 226 pgs.

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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

I: The Catholic Worker Movement

II: Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

III: Read the Catholic Worker Daily!

IV: The Journalist

V: The Lengthened Shadow

VI: Ominous Times, Valiant Decisions

VII: Civil Disobedience and Divine Obedience

VIII: Mightier Than the Sword

Appendix: The Circulation of the Catholic Worker, 1933-1983

Notes

Index
4.

Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
by Robert Coles. 182 pgs.

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The Radcliffe Biography Series

Contents

Preface

Dorothy Day

1: A Life Remembered

2: An Inquiring Idealism

3: Conversion

4: The Church Obeyed and Challenged

5: A Localist Politics

6: Living in a House of Hospitality

7: Her Spiritual Kin

Notes

Selected Bibliography

About the Author

Index
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'Commonweal' and the 'Catholic Worker, in Commonweal
by Patrick Jordan, Edward S. Skillin. 6 pgs.
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Harder Than War: Catholic Peacemaking in Twentieth-Century America (Chap. 2 "Dorothy Day: Mother of American Catholic Pacifism")
by Patricia McNeal. 318 pgs.

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Preface

1: Origins of the Catholic Peace Movement

2: Dorothy Day Mother of American Catholic Pacifism

3: World War II and the Just War Tradition

4: The Birth of Nonviolence From World War II to Vatican II

5: Thomas Merton at the Crossroads of Peace

6: The Catholic Peace Movement and Vietnam

7: The Berrigan Brothers and The Catholic Resistance

8: Catholic Peacemaking

Note on the Sources

Notes

Index
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Dorothy Day's Transposition of Therese's "Little Way", in Theological Studies
by J. Leon Hooper. 19 pgs.
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A Christian Perspective on Spirituality in Light of the Lives of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, in Re-vision
by Jim Forest. 6 pgs.
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American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
by Anne Klejment, Nancy L. Roberts. 198 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: The Catholic Worker in the United States Peace Tradition

2: The Radical Origins of Catholic Pacifism

3: Catholic Peace Organizations and World War II

4: Conscription and the Catholic Conscience in World War II

5: Prophecy Faces Tradition

6: The Catholic Worker and Peace in the Early Cold War Era

7: The Leaven

8: The Correspondence of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton

9: The Struggle of the Small Vehicle

10: The Catholic Worker and the Vietnam War

11: Anzus Plowshares

12: The Catholic Worker and Peace

Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society (contains "Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement")
by Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller. 172 pgs.

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Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of our government and society from the early republic to today. The volume combines scholarly vitality with readability, making it appropriate for all levels of students.

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Preface

Introduction

Catharine Beecher and Domestic Relations

Notes

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Black Abolitionism

Notes

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Woman's Rights Movement

Notes

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Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform

Notes

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Frances Willard and Temperance

Notes

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Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement

Notes

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Ida Wells-Barnett and the African-American Anti-Lynching Campaign

Notes

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Jessie Daniel Ames and the White Women's Anti- Lynching Campaign

Notes

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Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement

Notes

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Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement

Notes

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Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women

Notes

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Index

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The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 (contains "The Conversion of Dorothy Day" and "Fools for Christ: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, 1933-1949")
by James Terence Fisher. 305 pgs.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Conversion of Dorothy Day

2: Fools for Christ" Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, 1933-1949"

3: The Catholic Workers and Catholic Culture, 1933-1949

4: The Limits of Personalism Integrity and the Marycrest Community, 1946-1956

6: A Catholic Errand in the Wilderness Tom Dooley in Laos and America, 1956-1961

7: Jack Kerouac and Thomas Merton, the Last Catholic Romantics

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index
12.

Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook
by Nancy D. Signorielli, Alan M. Rubin. 504 pgs.

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Profiles outstanding women in communication, including pioneers in journalism, contemporary media professionals, and scholars.

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Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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Mary Clemmer Ames (1831-1884)

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Sandra Jean Ball-Rokeach (1941- )

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)

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Helen Gurley Brown (1922- )

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Judee K. Burgoon (1948-)

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Joanne Cantor (1945- )

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Peggy Charren (1928- )

Constance (connie) Yu-Hwa Chung (1946- )

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Ruth Franklin Crane (1902-1989)

Notes

Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

Conclusion

Brenda L. Dervin (1938- )

Author's Note

Nancy Dickerson (1927- )

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Dorothy Dix (elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) (1861-1951)

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Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953)

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Mary Anne Fitzpatrick (1949- )

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Pauline Frederick (1908-1990)

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Ellen Goodman (1941- )

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Doris Appel Graber (1923- )

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Katharine Graham (1917- )

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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879)

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Herta Herzog (1910- )

Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966)

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Hilde Himmelweit (1918-1989)

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Aletha C. Huston (1939- )

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Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1946- )

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Jean Kilbourne (1943- )

Career Development

Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (1913-1965)

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Gladys Engel Lang (1919- )

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Mary Margaret Mcbride (1889-1976)

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Anne O'Hare Mccormick (1880-1954)

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Sara Miller Mccune (1941- )

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Margaret L. Mclaughlin (1943- )

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Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916- )

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Helen Rogers Reid (1882-1970)

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Cokie Roberts (4 943- )

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L. Edna Rogers (1933- )

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

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Anne Newport Royall (1769-1854)

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Rebecca Boring Rubin (1948- )

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Jessica Savitch (1947-1983)

Selected Bibliography

Dorothy G. Singer (1927- )

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Gloria M. Steinem (1934- )

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Ida Minerva Tarbell: (1857-1944)

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Dorothy Thompson: (1893-1961)

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Judith Cary Waller (1889-1973)

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Barbara Walters (1931- )

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Ellen Wartella (1949- )

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)

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Appendix: Short Biographies of Notable Women in Communication

Author Index

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A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre (includes "Dorothy Day" by Nancy Roberts)
by Thomas B. Connery. 410 pgs.

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..."This book promises to be a useful reference source and would be a welcome addition to public and high school libraries....The book's focus makes it unique..." Booklist

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Copyright Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART ONE Introduction

Discovering A Literary Form

DISCOVERING A LITERARY FORM

Editor's Note

PART TWO The Writers

Mark Twain

Primary Sources

Richard Harding Davis

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Stephen Crane

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Jacob A. Riis

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