Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World (Paperback or Softback)

While there are many similarities among women's experiences, there are undeniable and important differences as well. Assembling a leading group of theologians, social scientists, and practitioners, this volume pioneers pastoral care of and by women in light of differences in race and ethnic background, class, generations, sexual orientation, and experience with the cultural realities that typically assail women.

Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is professor of pastoral care and pastoral theology at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University; an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA); a psychotherapist in ACPE; a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology; a Henry Luce III Fellow; a McCord Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry; and a former President of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She co-edited a volume which transformed the field of pastoral theology, Women in Travail and Transition: A New Pastoral Care (Fortress Press). Three additional pioneering volumes followed, all with Fortress Press.

Teresa Snorton is Executive Director of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and Adjunct Instructor in Pastoral Care at Candler School of Theology, Emory University.