Jeanne Stevenson MoessnerReseñas

An insightful sourcebook of essays by multiple women authors covers a range of pastoral care topics including the role of women in pastoral theology and pastoral care, care of African American women and women entering ministry, as well as issues from a range of women's experiences, such as anger, aggression, lesbian identities, loss of mothers, eating disorders, hysterectomy, mastectomy, rape, and older women's issues. Transformative essays on women's spiritual care, community, self-sacrifice, and self-denial conclude this collaborative work.

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"In September of 2008, while we were writing this volume, five honor killings [sic] occurred in Islamabad, Pakistan. Five women tried to choose their own husbands; three of these women were teenagers. All five were shot, thrown into a ditch, and buried alive by relatives." [356]