Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : mending a broken lineage / Emily A. Holmes -- Fear and women's writing : choosing the better part / Michelle Voss Robetrs -- A "wretched choice"? : Evangelical women and the Word / Shelly Rambo -- "My God became flesh" : Angela of Foligno writing the Incarnation / Emily A. Holmes -- Speaking funk : womanist insights into the lives of Syncletica and Macrina / Kendra G. Hotz -- "A moor of one's own" : writing and silence in Sara Maitland's a book of silence / Leigh Pittenger -- Withprayer and pen : reading Mother E. J. Dabney's what it means to pray through / Michele Jacques Early -- Writing a life, writing theology : Edith Stein in the company of the Saints / Meghan T. Sweeney -- Writing hunger on the body : Simone Weil's ethic of hunger and Eucharistic pracitce / Elizabeth A. Webb -- The body, to be eaten, to the written : a theological reflection on the act of writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Min-Ah Cho -- Not with one voice : the counterpoint of life, diaspora, women, theology, and writing / Kristine Suna-Koro -- Embodying theology : motherhood as metaphone/method / marcia W. Mount Shoop -- Postscript : wounded writing, healing writing / Wendy Farley.