Women, Religion, and Social Change

Sample Chapters include: "Women and the Formation of Religious Tradition" * Separation of Women in Rabbinic Judaism (Baskin) * Women, Religion and Social Change in Early Islam (Jane Smith) * Gargi at the King's Court: Women and Philosophic Innovation in Ancient India (Findly) * Nuns and Benefactresses: The Role of Women in the Development of Buddhism (Willis) * Striking a Balance: Women and Images of Women in Early Chinese Buddhism (Schuster) "Social Transformation, the Role of Women and Traditional Religious Institutions" * The Magdalen: Reflections on the Image of the Saint and Sinner in Christian Art (Dillenberger) * Women and Islamic Art (Denny) * Hindu Paradigms of Women: Images and Values (Robinson) * Images and Roles of Women in Bengali Vaisnava padavali kirtan (Wulff) * Sacred Paradoxes: Women and Religious Plurality in Nigeria (Hackett) "Women, Religion and Revolution in the Modern World" * Islam, Women and Revolution in the 20th C Arab Thought (Haddad) * Women's Place and the Place of Women in the Iranian Revolution (Darrow) * Religious Aspects of Women's Role in the Nicaraguan Revolution (Turner) * Goddesses, Mothers, and Heroine: Hindu Women and the Feminine in the Early Nationalist Movement (Ratte) * The Soong Sisters and China's Revolutions, 1911-1936 (Lestz) "Women, Religion and the Transformation of Society in North America * Iroquois Religion and Women in Historical Perspective (Shimony) * Spirits Defend the Rights of Women: Spiritualism and Changing Sex Roles in the 19th C America (Braude) * From Shackles to Liberation: Religion, the Grimke Sisters and Dissent (Kirkpatrick) * The American Catholic Bishops and Woman: From the 19th Amendment to ERA (Iadarola) * Feminism and the Reevaluation of Women's Roles with American Jewish Life (Umansky)