Janet Martin Soskice and Diana Lipton have selected pieces from a wide range of sources, connecting popular feminist writings with scholarly treatments

Includes contributions from outstanding scholars and writers in the field drawing upon a wide range of perspectives: Jewish and Christian, historical and contemporary, personal and political.
Takes a constructive look at the issues central to feminist theology including the interpretation of sacred texts, worship and liturgy, incarnation and embodiment, spirituality and sexuality, identity, ecofeminism and motherhood.
Spans diverse areas of theology including biblical interpretation, historical approaches, philosophy of religion and doctrine.
Essays are arranged thematically, each with its own introduction enhanced by general remarks.

Christianity and Judaism have inspired reflective theology for thousands of years but until recently, little of it was written by women. Feminism not only proposes new answers to the questions, but compels a reevaluation as to the questions themselves.
The essays in this volume represent the richnes of feminist writings in theology, an area that commands international interest, inside and outside the academy, and addresses aspects of theological study including biblical interpretation, historical approaches, doctrine philosophy of religion and ethics. This book brings together some of the best essays in the field, with an introduction by Janet Martin Soskice mapping the historical, global and doctrinal contributions to theology.The essys are arranged thematically, and an introduction mapping the area is enhanced by general remarks on each theme and specific comments on individual contributions. This book seeks to engage readers new to the field as well as professionals. The collection emphasises the importance of grass roots contributions alongside academic work.

Contents
I. Sourcess
1. Telling Tales , Linda Walter
2. The Red Tent , Anita Diamant
3. On Being A Woman: Thailand , Benjaporn Mochai
4. Ecofeminism: First and Third World Women , Rosemary Radford Ruether
5. The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions , Alicia Ostriker
6. Beyond God the Father , Mary Daly
II. Identity
7. `Becoming Male`: One Aspect of Early Christian Anthropology , Kari Vogt
8. `I Will Make Mary Male`: Pieties of the Body and Gender Transformation of Christian Women in Late Antiquity , Elizabeth A. Castelli
9. The Image of God in Women as Seen by Luther and Calvin , Jane Dempsey Douglass
10. Roundtable Discussion: Mujeristas, Who We Are and What We Are About , Maria Ada Isasi-Diaz
12. Mujerista Theology , Maria Ada Isasi-Diaz
13. Against Machismo: Interiews by Elsa Tamez , Elsa Tamez
14. Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey Toward Traditional Rabbinic Ordination , Haviva Ner-David
15. The Mute Cannot Keep Silent: Barth, Von Balthasar, and Irigaray, on the Construction of Women`s Silence , Rachel Muers
III. Sacred Texts
16. Plotted, Shot and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women , J. Cheryl Exum
17. Genesis 22: The Sacrifice of Sarah , Phyllis Trible
18. The Hebrew God and his Female Complements , Athalya Brenner
19. The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus , Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
20. Galatians , Carolyn Osiek
21. Philippians , Pheme Perkins
22. Discipleship of Equals: A Critical Feminist Ekklesia-logy of Liberation , Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
IV. Practice
23. On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition , Blu Greenberg
24. `Adam`s Only Companion`: Augustine and the Early Christian Debate on Marriage , Elizabeth A. Clark
25. Living into the Mystery of the Holy Trinity: Trinity, Prayer, and Sexuality , Sarah Coakley
26. Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theolgoy and Ethics , Rachel Adler
Incarnation and Embodiment
27. Theology and Feminsim , Daphne Hampson
28. White Women`s Christ and Black Women`s Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response , Jacquelyn Grant
29. The Significance Today of Jesus` Commission to Mary Magdalene , Teresa Okure
30. The Care-Banishing Breast of the Father , Verna Harrison
31. Blood and Defilement , Janet Martin Soskice
32. Contours of a Queer Theology , Grace M. Jantzen
33. Suffering, Resisting, Healing: An Asian View of the Body , Sharon A. Bong