Women Don't Count The Challenge of Women's Poverty to Christian Ethics

This work examines the dynamics through which women are marginalized andimpoverished, and offers a constructive proposal for addressing women'ssocio-economic vulnerability. Part One surveys the economic status of womenglobally and discerns both common threads of subordination and significantdifferences among women. Part Two reviews the social-justice positions of theRoman Catholic church and the World Council of Churches in light of this survey.Part Three identifies theoretical resources that adequately address women'ssocio-economic vulterability. Brubaker advances her own theoretical approach,which illuminates and engages women's impoverishment. She concludes with adiscussion of how placing women's economic condition at the center of Christianeconomic ethics would affect social analysis, economic policy, and socialvision.