Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism: The YWCA of the USA and the Maryknoll Sisters

\"Amanda Izzo’s book is a revelation.  Two intertwining stories--the Maryknoll sisters going from cold warriors to dissidents, and the YWCA as the target of anti-communist repression-- together demonstrate how faith in the power of love propelled  Christian women’s political agendas on a world stage in the 20th century.\"

--Ann Braude, author of Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion

\"In this crisply-written and illuminating account, Amanda Izzo tells the story of two women\'s associations, the Protestant YWCA and the Catholic Maryknoll sisters. Following dramatically different routes along the way, the groups\' politics converged in the 1960s and 70s, becoming powerful forces for social justice at home and abroad.  Izzo treats both strands of this important alliance with nuance and insight, suggesting how far creeds of Christian love took the American people – and how far we have to go.\"

--Jane Hunter, author of Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China

\"Amanda Izzo\'s wonderful excavation of early twentieth century women\'s activism among liberal Catholics and Protestants casts new light everywhere. Izzo stresses liberalism\'s activist energy, Maryknoll and YWCA globalism, and, ultimately, the importance of women’s religious activism in the global human rights movement.  Beautifully researched and even more beautifully written, Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism illuminates the exceptional reach of women’s activism across religions and world borders.”

--Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies Yale Univ.