Women of spirit : female leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions / edited by Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin.

Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. [385]-387.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Women's leadership in the Jewish and Christian traditions: continuity and change / Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin -- Word, spirit and power: women in early Christian communities / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Mothers of the church: ascetic women in the late patristic age / Rosemary Ruether -- Women, power and the pursuit of holiness in medieval Christianity / Eleanor McLaughlin -- Virgins in the service of Christ: the dispute over an active apostolate for women during the Counter-Reformation / Ruth P. Liebowitz -- "A woman must not speak": Quaker women in the English left wing / Elaine C. Huber -- Jane Lead: the feminist mind and art of a seventeenth-century Protestant mystic / Catherine F. Smith -- The feminist thrust of sectarian Christianity / Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Women in the Holiness Movement: feminism in the evangelical tradition / Nancy Hardesty, Lucille Sider Dayton and Donald W. Dayton -- Removing the veil: the liberated American nun / Mary Owens -- "Their prodigious influence": women, religion and reform in antebellum America / Dorothy C. Bass -- American women in ministry: a history of Protestant beginning points / Virginia Lieson Brereton and Christa Ressmeyer Klein -- Women in Judaism: from the Reform Movement to contemporary Jewish religious feminism / Ellen M. Umansky -- Entering the sanctuary: the struggle for priesthood in contemporary Episcopalian and Roman Catholic experience: I. The Episcopalian story / Norene Carter ; II. The Roman Catholic story / Rosemary Ruether.