Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Foundations -- All we're meant to be : feminism confronts the church -- The first wave of feminism -- The second wave of feminism -- The third wave of feminism -- What's at stake : it's hermeneutics! -- The nature of biblical interpretation -- Special issues in the feminist debate -- Other related issues in the feminist debate -- Jesus and radical feminism -- Mary daly : overcoming the Christian fixation on Jesus -- The church and the second sex -- Beyond God the Father -- Further radicalization -- Daly's hermeneutic -- Daly's Jesus -- Virginia Ramey Mollenkott : Godding and Omnigender -- Mollenkott's egalitarian moorings -- Mollenkott's radical turn -- Daphne Hampson : after Christianity, what? -- A search for alternate paradigms -- Jesus and reformist feminism -- Letty Russell : liberated to becoming human -- Feminist liberation theology -- Russell's hermeneutic -- Rosemary Radford Ruether : woman guides and women-church -- Ruether's early work -- Ruether's radical turn -- Elisabeth Sch�ssler Fiorenza and Jesus alleged discipleship of equals -- Miriam's child, Sophia's prophet -- Jesus and the politics of interpretation -- Kathleen Corley and others : the case of the crumbling paradigm -- Kathleen Corley -- John H. Elliott -- Esther Yue I. Ng -- Amy-Jill Levine -- The feminist companion and the new face of feminism -- The new feminism -- Semeia -- Searching the Scriptures -- The feminist companion to the Ggospels -- Evaluation of new feminism -- Jesus and evangelical feminism (egalitarianism) -- The early years : emancipation -- The early years (1966-1986) -- The maturing movement : increasing complexity -- The maturing movement (1987-1999) -- Recent contributions : creativity and consolidation -- Recent contributions (2000-present) -- Summary and evaluation of evangelical feminism -- Jesus and the Gospels : a non-feminist reading -- Who do you say that I am? : a look at the Gospels -- The hermeneutical framework -- The genre of the Gospels -- Major passages on Jesus and women in the Gospels -- Jesus' approach to women according to the four Gospels -- Jesus' first-century Jewish context -- Comparison of feminist approaches to Jesus and women -- Toward a proper understanding of Jesus' approach to women.