BOOK LIST 2009

This list has been compiled as a guide to books about the history of women's ordination. Some may be out of print – for instance, Monica Furlong's and Margaret Webster's – but can still be found, eg on Amazon.

Act of Synod, Act of Folly
Ed Monica Furlong, SCM Press, 1998.
Copies of this book can be had from the Administrator, WATCH, St John's Church, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY – price £2 plus 50p postage and packing

A Dangerous Delight
Monica Furlong, SPCK, 1991

A New Strength, A New Song
Margaret Webster, Mowbray, 1994
This is a brilliant history of the Movement for the Ordination of Women and all that happened up to 1994.

A Wing and a Prayer: A message of Prayer and Hope
Katharine Jefferts Schori, SPCK, 2007.
Reviewed in OUTLOOK 22 Spring 2007

Gospel in the Global Village
Katharine Jefferts Schori: SCM 2009 (not out yet)

Embracing Women: Making History in the Church of Ireland
Ginnie Enderley, Dublin Columbia Press 2008

Jobs for the Boys – Women who became priests
Edited by Liz and Andrew Barr, Hodder and Stoughton 2001

Junia: The First Woman Apostle
Edited by Eldon Jay Epp; Fortress Press 2005.
Reviewed in OUTLOOK 21 Autumn 2006

The Call for Women Bishops
Ed Harriet Harris and Jane Shaw, SPCK, 2004

This is our Story
Edited by Janet Wootton pub by Epworth 2007
Reviewed in OUTLOOK 23 Autumn 2007

Voices of this Calling
Ed Christina Rees, SCM Canterbury Press, 2002

Women and the Episcopate
Compiled by members of Affirming Catholicism 2006
(www.affirmingcatholicism.org.uk)
Reviewed in OUTLOOK 21 Autumn 2006

Women and Priesthood in the Church of England: Ten Years On
Ian Jones, Church House Publishing 2004

Women as Bishops
Ed James Rigby, Mowbray, 2008
Reviewed in OUTLOOK 25 Autumn 2008

Women Bishops in the Church of England
Church House Publishing, 2004

Women in the Ministry
by Lesley Orr Macdonald Wild Goose Publications, the Iona Community 1999

Recent Church of England reports and dates, such as, Report of Proceedings: The General Synod of the Church of England
Available from Church House Bookshop, Gt Smith St, London SW1P 3BN or can be obtained online.

All Desires Known
Janet Morley
(prayers and meditations updated to match the new Lectionary) SPCK 2004

The Church of Ireland Journal (Autumn Edition 2005)
Dedicated to issues connected with the ordination of women to celebrate 15 years of women priests in Ireland

Preaching like a Woman
Susan Durber, SPCK 2007

A Theology of Women's Priesthood
Alison Green, SPCK, July 2009
A radical look at the theologican and symbolic significance of a woman presiding at the altar. Dr Ali Green is an Anglican priest currently working in the church in Wales.

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