"Weaver fills an important gap in women"s studies through her investigation of the intersection of the women"s movement with the lives of contemporary Roman Catholic women." —Iris"Mary Jo Weaver has charted the course of this new consciousness among Roman Catholic women." —Rosemary Radford Ruether"This is the first full-scale study of how the U.S. women"s movement has intersected with the lives and aspirations of American Roman Catholic women." —Elizabeth Johnson, Religious Studies Review