Edited by Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt
published by Paulist Press, 1991.
Republished on our website with the necessary permissions
Contents
| Preface | Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt | 1 |
| Part 1 Searching For Women’s Identity in Scripture | ||
| Partners in the Mystery of Creation | Dianne Bergant | 11 |
| “She Spent All She Had…..But Only Grew Worse” Paying the Price of Paternalism | Karen A.Barta | 24 |
| Agent or Icon: Scriptural Images and the Anthropology of Women | Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt | 37 |
| Part II Searching for Women’s Identity in Society | ||
| Let the Women Speak (No permission to publish online) | Barbara Moran | 57 |
| Voices Speak Out of Fertile Silence | Elizabeth McMillan | 68 |
| Patriachy: A Global Reality | Dolores Greeley | 80 |
| The Receptive Partner | Marilyn J. Gustin | 92 |
| Part III Searching for Women’s Identity in the Church | ||
| How Shall Our Church Teach | Maryanne Stevens | 103 |
| Recovering a History of Partnership American Sisters in the Nineteeth Century | Janet Ruffing | 117 |
| Women Deaconesses: Historical and Contemporary Explorations | Ann Marie Caron | 132 |
| Part lV Future Directions | ||
| Future Directions: Continuing the Conversation | Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt | 155 |
| List of Contributors | 164 |