Book Review

Flash points in sex and gender

Culture
Aug 10, 2011

Case studies from the fringe underlie analysis of women in Catholicism

WOMEN & CATHOLICISM: GENDER, COMMUNION, AND AUTHORITY
By Phyllis Zagano
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, $28

Phyllis Zagano has long been a careful and reasonable voice, active in both scholarly and media conversations about Catholicism. Author or editor of more than a dozen books and numerous scholarly articles, particularly in the field of spirituality, she has turned her talents in recent years more often to questions about the church and the role of women. (Her blog, Just Catholic, appears on the NCR Web site.)