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"Sue Monk was a 'conventionally religious, churchgoing woman, a traditional wife and mother' with a thriving career as a Christian writer until she began to question her role as a woman in her culture, her family, and her church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kidd takes readers through the fear, anger, healing, and transformation of her awakening. Retaining a meaningful...

What does it mean to re-vision Torah? Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, woman, rabbi, scholar, and feminist, challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets the ancient text, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision, a "revision", of the Torah. Goldstein boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context at the same time she honestly reconciles its past.