Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- A perspective on the women's question -- The origins of the Bible revisited -- Perspectives of a feminist theology: towards the full humanity of women and men -- On doing feminist theology in South Asia -- South Asian feminist theory and its significance for feminist theology -- The cross of women: a Lenten meditation on suffering -- Emerging feminist and ecological concerns in Asia -- The world as the body of God: feminist perspective on ecology and social justice -- The relationship between women's movements and Dalit movements case study conceptual analysis -- Feminism in the nineties -- Subversion, transgression, transcendence "Asian spiritualtity" in the light of Dalit and Adivasi struggles.