"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