Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women out of order -- Complicated woman: multiplicity and relationality across gender and culture / Pamela Cooper-White -- Just care: pastoral counseling with socioeconomically vulnerable women / Francesca Debora Nuzzolese -- A womanist legacy of trauma, grief, and loss: reframing the notion of the strong Black woman icon / Beverly R. Wallace -- Pastoral care of Korean American women: the degeneration of mothering into the management of an inadequate sense of self / Angella M. Pak Son -- Gynecology: woman as a symbol of carrier, protector, and nourisher of life / Laura W. Dorsey -- We hold our stories in blankets: pastoral care with American Indian women / Michelle Oberwise Lacock and Carol Lakota Eastin -- Risking change -- Where race, gender, and orientation meet / Karla J. Cooper and Joretta L. Marshall -- Womanist pastoral care using narrative therapy in addressing multicultural issues / Jacqueline Kelley -- La veglia--keeping vigil: the power of storytelling and story sharing in women's lives: a study in Mediterranean culture / Adriana P. Cavina -- Aggression in Korean American women: cultural adaptation and conceptual reformulation / Insook Lee -- Pastoral care with Korean goose moms / Suk Yeon Lee -- Pentecostal and female in Puerto Rico: risking all to pursue a call / Miriam Figueroa -- Creating care in a multicultural world -- What about all those angry Black women? / Teresa E. Snorton -- Unraveling the relational myth in the turn toward autonomy: pastoral care and counseling with African women / Esther E. Acolatse -- Pastoral care for the 1.5 generation: in-between space as the new cultural space / Sophia Park -- Counseling grace: a pastoral theology / Elizabeth Johnson Walker -- Silent cry: in search of harmony on Gold Mountain: the yin-yang way of pastoral care / Yoke-Lye Lim Kwong -- Women, professional work, and diversity: pastoral theology in the midst of globalization / Barbara J. McClure -- Challenges ahead -- Soul care amid religious plurality: excavating an emerging dimension of multicultural challenge and competence / Kathleen J. Greider -- Are there limits to multicultural inclusion?: difficult questions for feminist pastoral theology / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore and Melinda McGarrah Sharp -- Where race and gender collide: deconstructing racial privilege / Nancy Ramsay -- Where race and gender collude: reconstructing our history / Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner.

While there are many similarities among women's experiences, there are undeniable and important differences as well. Assembling a leading group of theologians, social scientists, and practitioners, this volume pioneers pastoral care of and by women in light of differences in race and ethnic background, class, generations, sexual orientation, and experience with the cultural realities that typically assail women. --BOOK JACKET.