Contents, Volume 12 #4

September/October 1994

Dossier

Across the Gender Divide

Drawing on old traditions
and finding new models
for relations between
men and women

Leader
The delicate art of weaving friendship, sex and love back together. Louisa Blair (p.2)

Across the Gender Divide: Traditions (p.6)

Marriage Keeps Bursting Out of the Box. Rosemary Haughton

God of the Matriarchs. Robert Chodos

Across the Gender Divide: Reflections (p.13)

Big Deals from Little Deals. Lauren Griffin

Dear Sisters' Healing Friendship. Bernard Audigier PFJ

Teens on This Side of the Rainbow. Sarah Leis Chodosh

Across the Gender Divide: Perspectives (p.18)

The Body and Our Likeness to God. Margaret Brennan IHM

Men Need to Help Shape the Future. Ron Barnes SJ

Victimhood and Women's Identities. Kenise Murphy Kilbride

Across the Gender Divide: Stories (p.26)

Respect and Balance in Our "Tribe." Madeleine Gagnon

Jewels of the Tea House Waitress. Denise Chong

Relationship Strife Coming Your Way. Don Ferguson

In the Newsroom, Life Came Due. Teresa Mazzitelli

Female Girls of the Opposite Sex. Fr. Gerald Kleba

St. Adrian and St. Natalia
A dramatic tale of unconditional love, conversion to Christianity and gruesome death. Michael Power (p.31)

Article

Population: The UN vs. the Vatican?
Good guy/bad guy reading of the struggle ignores the limitations of the UN's "Mr. Fix-it" approach. Jack Costello SJ (p.33)

Company Man Didn't Have All the Answers. Louisa Blair

Books

Boundaries of the City
By Alan Waterhouse.
The Canadian Home
By Marc Denhez.
Architecture, Ethics, and Technology
Edited by Louise Pelletier and Alberto Pérez-Gómez.
Reviewed by Terry Kruger SJ (p.38)

Thinking English Canada
By Philip Resnick. Reviewed by Rae Murphy (p.40)

The Politics and Economics of Eric Kierans
By John N. McDougall. Reviewed by Eileen de Neeve (p.43)

Features

Letters
Magisterium of the intellectuals and leaving the past. (p.4)

Points
Meaning at last, irresistible desire and loss of soul. (p.5)

Colloquy
South Africa's vision of changing meaning. Walter Willies (p.32)

Testament
The Qur'an is the Word become book. Gerhard Böwering SJ (p.37)

Compass Cryptic
Mad Duke Leopold, idiot adjudicator and shy Ibo doctor. (p.45)

Disputatio
Religious life means cleaving to Jesus in a vowed community. Jane Ubertino (p.46)

Distractions by Martin Royackers
Having spirituality and your ego too. (p.47)