Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope
By Celia Wexler. Tells the stories of nine women who have chosen to remain Catholic despite their deep disagreements with the institutional... Read More
Catholic Women Preach, Raising Voices, Renewing the Church — Cycle B
Edited by Elizabeth Donnelly & Russ Petrus. A resource from FutureChurch, this is the second is a series of three volumes, following... Read More
Catholic Women Preach: Raising Voices, Renewing the Church — Cycle A
Edited by Elizabeth Donnelly & Russ Petrus. A resource from FutureChurch, this is the first of a series of three volumes, following... Read More
Creating Cultures of Belonging: Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive
By Beth Birmingham & Eeva Sallinen Simard. Argues that many organizations still lack the ability to embody a belonging culture where all employees... Read More
Creating Spaces for Women in the Catholic Church
Edited by Sarah Kohles OSF. Presents the struggle of theologically educated lay women with the Catholic Church. Holds that lay women lack... Read More
Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity
By Christine Schenk C.S.J. Explores visual imagery found on burial artifacts of prominent early Christian women and carefully situates the tomb art... Read More
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
By Sola Mahfouz & Malaina Kapoor. A personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her... Read More
Dynamic Diversity Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church
By Bruce Milne. Contends that all Christian congregations everywhere are called to be bridging places, centers of reconciliation, where the major diversities... Read More
Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
By Katherine Turk. Synthesizing the histories of work, social movements, and civil rights in the postwar US, examines how Title VII of... Read More
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
By Jody Miller. Drawing from interviews with adolescent girls and boys, presents a picture of dire social problem of African American girls... Read More
Guatemalan Women Speak
By Margaret Hooks. A collection of interviews with women from all walks of Guatemalan life. It highlights the multiple dimensions of women’s... Read More
Half the Sky
By Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn. Argues that greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population & the key... Read More
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
By Safiya Sinclair. The story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal... Read More
Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women
By Phyllis Zagano. Engages readers in the synodal pathway to a “Just Church” that can and should reflect its social teaching. Argues... Read More
Like the Dew that Waters the Grass: Words from Haitian Women
By Marie M. B. Racine with Kathy Ogle. A collection of interviews of Haitian women who are silent no longer. Read more.
Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church: An Insider’s View
By Ray Bourgeois. This memoir, written by a Catholic priest for forty years, addresses the injustice of male supremacy, sexism and the... Read More
Never Again a World Without Us: Voices of Mayan Women in Chiapas, Mexico
By Teresa Ortiz. Interviews with several Zapatista women bring to life the problems of families moving to the Lacandon Jungle in the... Read More
Nevertheless, We Persist: A Feminist Public Theology
By Rosemary P Carbine. Drawing on major figures in feminist and womanist theologies as well as public theology, examines a rich range... Read More
Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up
By Tiffany Bluhm. Explores the complex dynamics of power and abuse in social systems. Tells the stories of how women have overcome... Read More
Resist and Persist: Faith and the Fight for Equality
By Erin Wathen. Navigates the complex layers of what it means to be a woman in our time and place — from... Read More
Rising: Learning from Women’s Leadership in Catholic Ministries
By Carolyn Woo. Offers reflections on first-person narratives of a range of women involved in leadership positions in Catholic ministries — social... Read More
Sojourners
Encourages Christians to put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship through resources like... Read More
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By Nijay K. Gupta. Offers evidence from the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel... Read More
The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In-Betweens to Remake the World
By Kaya Oakes. Draws on the wisdom of women mystics and explores how transitional eras or living in marginalized female identities can be... Read More
The Earth Charter
A framework for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century by inspiring a sense of global interdependence... Read More
The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism
By Judith Casselberry. Focusing on the circumstances of producing a holy black personhood, examines the labor of the women of the Church... Read More
The Only Woman
By Immy Humes. A photo gallery of women who made their way into a man’s world, shown through group portraits each featuring a... Read More
The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing
By Denis Mukwege. A call-to-action from a renowned Nobel laureate doctor and human rights activist to confront sexual violence and better learn... Read More
Women and the Gender of God
By Amy Peeler. A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male. Shows how the Bible depicts a God beyond gender... Read More
Women Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition: Solidarity toward the Common Good
Edited by Erin M. Brigham, Mary Johnson SNDdeN. A collection of essays that point out that the Catholic Social Tradition has concentrated... Read More
Women Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice
By Meghan Tschanz. A personal journey of transformation as well as a Christian blueprint for anyone wanting to confront injustice against women while... Read More
Women Saints: Lives of Faith and Courage
By Kathleen Jones. Looks at the history of women saints and interprets the lives of forty extraordinarily varied women from all centuries,... Read More
Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit
By Elizabeth A. Johnson. A revised edition of the same title published in 1990s, argues that the environment has only been degraded... Read More
Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare
By A. Vigen & Anna Agathangelou. Explores healthcare inequalities by comparing stories of Black and Latina women who have breast cancer, with... Read More
Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
By Torben Iversen & Frances Rosenbluth. Looks at women’s power in the home, in the workplace & in politics from a political... Read More
Women: A Century of Change
The November 2019 issue of National Geographic, looks at the prosperity, progress and peril of women throughout the world by focusing on... Read More