The power to heal / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Finding a self / Anne Carolyn Klein -- A loving league of sisters; class, race, gender, and religion in Louisa May Alcott's work / Amy Schrager Lang -- Contemporary goddess theology / Emily Erwin Culpepper -- The limits of the appeal to women's experience / Sheila Greeve Davaney -- Ferraro, the Bishops, and the 1984 election / Mary C. Segers -- Violence against women in the historical Christian west and in North American secular culture / Margaret R. Miles -- The fall of Icarus / Constance H. Buchanan.