Scholars mostly of religion, but also women's studies, education, and literature look at women in Christianity from the perspectives of women, family, and environment; socioeconomics, politics, and authority; body, mind, and spirit; sex, power, and vulnerability; and women, worldview, and religious practice. Among specific topics are black women's activism in the environmental justice movement, Catholic women seeking empowerment in a post-Vatican II church, poverty and HIV, sexual violence as a sin against women, and living past the colonial legacy in the Caribbean. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)