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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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, 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