Back Talk!: Women Leaders Changing the Church

by Susan Willhauck

Willhauck has heard the church say to "Don't give me any Back Talk!" Too often, she contends, women have been told what to do in order to get ahead.
In Back Talk!, Willhauck will use this admonishing term in a positive way to help the church change for the better. She effectively discusses gender issues in leadership - recent changes as well as current changes - and identifies key areas in which change is needed and how women leaders have made changes.
In particular, the book examines the growing leadership of ethnic women in the church, especially Korean, Latino, and African American women, and also shows how feminist, womanist, liberation, and Asian theologies serve as a resource for analyzing data concerning change.

159 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2005

About the author

Dr. Susan Willhauck is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Prior to that she was on the faculty of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. and has served several United Methodist Churches in the Virginia Conference.