Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words

Maureen E. Fiedler

ISBN 10: 1596271205 / ISBN 13: 9781596271203

Published by Seabury Books, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious Leaders in Their Own Words
• Publisher: Seabury Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596271205
• ISBN 13: 9781596271203
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This collection of lively Q&A interviews with key contemporary female religious leaders focuses not only on the discrimination faced by women in religion, but documents the emerging leadership of women in several faith traditions.

About the Author

Maureen Fiedler's public radio show, Interfaith Voices, is now heard in seventy markets throughout the country. Fiedler holds a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University and is a Sister of Loretto. Prior to her radio career, she was a recognized religious feminist in the Roman Catholic Church. She was also an interfaith activist for the Equal Rights Amendment (1978-82) and head of Catholics Act for ERA. In 1982, she was one of eight women who fasted for thirty-seven days for ratification of the ERA. She lives in Maryland.