Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The separation of women in rabbinic Judaism / Judith Baskin
  • Women, religion and social change in early Islam / Jane I. Smith
  • Gargi at the king's court : women and philosophic innovation in ancient India / Ellison Banks Findly
  • Nuns and benefactresses : the role of women in the development of Buddhism / Janice D. Willis
  • Striking a balance : women and images of women in early Chinese Buddhism / Nancy Schuster
  • The Magdalen : reflections on the image of the saint and sinner in Christian art / Jane Dillenberger
  • Woman and Islamic art / Walter B. Denny
  • Hindu paradigms of women : images and values / Sandra P. Robinson
  • Images and roles of women in Bengali Vaisnava padavali kirtan / Donna Marie Wulff
  • Sacred paradoxes : women and religious plurality in Nigeria / Rosalind I.J. Hackett.
  • Islam, women and revolution in twentieth-century Arab thought / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
  • Woman's place and the place of women in the Iranian revolution / William R. Darrow
  • Religious aspects of women's role in the Nicaraguan revolution / Pauline Turner
  • Goddesses, mothers, and heroines : Hindu women and the feminine in the early nationalist movement / Lou Ratté
  • The Soong sisters and China's revolutions, 1911-1936 / Michael E. Lestz
  • Iroquois religion and women in historical perspective / Annemarie A. Shimony
  • Spirits defend the rights of women : spiritualism and changing sex roles in nineteenth-century America / Ann D. Braude
  • From shackles to liberation : religion, the Grimké sisters and dissent / Frank G. Kirkpatrick
  • The American Catholic bishops and woman : from the Nineteenth Amendment to ERA / Antoinette Ladarola
  • Feminism and the reevaluation of women's roles within American Jewish life / Ellen M. Umansky.