Women's Work

Susan L. Engh is program director for congregation-based organizing for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and clergy consultant to the Gamaliel national network.

Susan L. Engh's Women’s Work: The Transformational Power of Faith-Based Community Organizing is a much-needed, nuanced, and timely history and accounting of the generative power of female community organizers and the effects of multiplicities of power, effectiveness and justice that happen when empowered women leaders become powerful community organizers. This text will become essential reading in seminary and theological classrooms throughout the United States - and I hope the world - for all who yearn for and need the perspectives and generative insights and power that female community organizers bring to the work of doing justice on this side of glory.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword Kim BoboIntroduction1. The Transformation of Women2. The Transformation of Local Faith Communities3. The Transformation of National Religious Bodies4. The Transformation of Community Organizations5. The Transformation of Communities6. Women’s Paths to PowerBiographical Profiles of the Women Interviewed for this BookGlossary of Terms and OrganizationsRecommended ReadingAbout the Author