TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1:
Women’s Stories
“You had to go on working even though you were sick”
Making women talk: rape and military interrogation
The sex trade: women pay for national debts
New economics and old customs: women suffer double discrimination
Rural poverty tightens a cultural net around women
“One day I will run away:” marriage and inequality
Household help or slaves? Filipinas in Singapore
"I am considered to be a curse upon my parents"
Prostitution: are women made for men's pleasure?
Economics and mass media are behind prostitution
The myths and taboos are harsh, but "what enslaves us most is our
poverty"
Women get neglect and violence from husbands
Timor: genocide, cultural destruction and the anguish of seeing children
starve
For Aboriginal Australians, colonisation continues
Breaking the cycle of drugs, crime and prison
"The boss behaved like a petty dictator"; unions don't help
women, either
No compensation: just "bills, pain and sadness"
Part 2:
Analysis and reflection
The women's movement and the ecumenical agenda
Checks and balances: social activism and women's lives
Filipinas: powerful agents for social transformation
Women demand peace and development, not tokenism
"Not one of His best efforts": world religions and women's
oppression
Dowry: "commercial bargain with no ethical foundation"
Some things are just not possible for a man in your condition
Part 3:
Christian responses
Christ, cosmos and the human condition, according to feminist theologians
Overthrowing idolatry and rediscovering relationship in the Christian
tradition
"I must have a child": a role play about taboos