Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, PhD, is professor of theology and women's studies at Shaw University Divinity School, Raleigh, NC.Karen Jo Torjesen, PhD, is the Margo L. Goldsmith Professor of Women's Studies in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, and initiated two graduate programs, one in women's studies, another in religious studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Karen Jo TorjesenPart I. Women, Family, Environment1. There Goes the Bride: A Snapshot of the Ideal Christian WifeKathlyn A. Breazeale2. Righteous Anger and Sustaining Faith: Black Women's Activism in the Environmental Justice MovementTuere Bowles3. How Women Relate to the Evils of NatureKaren Baker-FletcherPart II. Socioeconomics, Politics, Authority4. Beyond Priesthood: Catholic Women Seek Empowerment in a Post-Vatican II ChurchJudith Johnson5. Gender and Society: Competing Visions of Women's Agency, Equality, and Well-beingPamela K. Brubaker6. Oppression and Resistance: The Church, Women's Work, and the Struggle for LiberationJoan M. MartinPart III. Body, Mind, Spirit7. Spirit Matters: Body, Mind, and MotherhoodJean T. Corey8. Spirituality, Love, and WomenSoyoung Baik-Chey9. What the Mind Forgets the Body Remembers: Women, Poverty, and HIVLinda E. ThomasPart IV. Sex, Power, Vulnerability10. Sexual Violence: A Sin against WomenMarie M. Fortune11. An Articulation of a Theology of the Body for Queer TheoryMarie Cartier12. Sexuality, Politics, and FaithShari JulianPart V. Women, Worldview, Religious Practice13. Women and Christianity in the Caribbean: Living Past the Colonial LegacyAlthea Spencer Miller14. Maternal Practices as Religious Piety: The Pedagogical Practices of American Latter-day Saint WomenAmy HoytSuggested ReadingIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

…a useful addition for collections supporting women's studies, and studies focused on religion and women. SummingUp: Recommended. Academic and public libraries; lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers, and general readers.

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, PhD, is professor of theology and women's studies at Shaw University Divinity School, Raleigh, NC.Karen Jo Torjesen, PhD, is the Margo L. Goldsmith Professor of Women's Studies in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, and initiated two graduate programs, one in women's studies, another in religious studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Karen Jo TorjesenPart I. Women, Family, Environment1. There Goes the Bride: A Snapshot of the Ideal Christian WifeKathlyn A. Breazeale2. Righteous Anger and Sustaining Faith: Black Women's Activism in the Environmental Justice MovementTuere Bowles3. How Women Relate to the Evils of NatureKaren Baker-FletcherPart II. Socioeconomics, Politics, Authority4. Beyond Priesthood: Catholic Women Seek Empowerment in a Post-Vatican II ChurchJudith Johnson5. Gender and Society: Competing Visions of Women's Agency, Equality, and Well-beingPamela K. Brubaker6. Oppression and Resistance: The Church, Women's Work, and the Struggle for LiberationJoan M. MartinPart III. Body, Mind, Spirit7. Spirit Matters: Body, Mind, and MotherhoodJean T. Corey8. Spirituality, Love, and WomenSoyoung Baik-Chey9. What the Mind Forgets the Body Remembers: Women, Poverty, and HIVLinda E. ThomasPart IV. Sex, Power, Vulnerability10. Sexual Violence: A Sin against WomenMarie M. Fortune11. An Articulation of a Theology of the Body for Queer TheoryMarie Cartier12. Sexuality, Politics, and FaithShari JulianPart V. Women, Worldview, Religious Practice13. Women and Christianity in the Caribbean: Living Past the Colonial LegacyAlthea Spencer Miller14. Maternal Practices as Religious Piety: The Pedagogical Practices of American Latter-day Saint WomenAmy HoytSuggested ReadingIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

…a useful addition for collections supporting women's studies, and studies focused on religion and women. SummingUp: Recommended. Academic and public libraries; lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers, and general readers.

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, PhD, is professor of theology and women's studies at Shaw University Divinity School, Raleigh, NC.Karen Jo Torjesen, PhD, is the Margo L. Goldsmith Professor of Women's Studies in Religion, Claremont Graduate School, and initiated two graduate programs, one in women's studies, another in religious studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Karen Jo TorjesenPart I. Women, Family, Environment1. There Goes the Bride: A Snapshot of the Ideal Christian WifeKathlyn A. Breazeale2. Righteous Anger and Sustaining Faith: Black Women's Activism in the Environmental Justice MovementTuere Bowles3. How Women Relate to the Evils of NatureKaren Baker-FletcherPart II. Socioeconomics, Politics, Authority4. Beyond Priesthood: Catholic Women Seek Empowerment in a Post-Vatican II ChurchJudith Johnson5. Gender and Society: Competing Visions of Women's Agency, Equality, and Well-beingPamela K. Brubaker6. Oppression and Resistance: The Church, Women's Work, and the Struggle for LiberationJoan M. MartinPart III. Body, Mind, Spirit7. Spirit Matters: Body, Mind, and MotherhoodJean T. Corey8. Spirituality, Love, and WomenSoyoung Baik-Chey9. What the Mind Forgets the Body Remembers: Women, Poverty, and HIVLinda E. ThomasPart IV. Sex, Power, Vulnerability10. Sexual Violence: A Sin against WomenMarie M. Fortune11. An Articulation of a Theology of the Body for Queer TheoryMarie Cartier12. Sexuality, Politics, and FaithShari JulianPart V. Women, Worldview, Religious Practice13. Women and Christianity in the Caribbean: Living Past the Colonial LegacyAlthea Spencer Miller14. Maternal Practices as Religious Piety: The Pedagogical Practices of American Latter-day Saint WomenAmy HoytSuggested ReadingIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

…a useful addition for collections supporting women's studies, and studies focused on religion and women. SummingUp: Recommended. Academic and public libraries; lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers, and general readers.