Her choice of said institutions reminds us of the very traditional tones of each. She contrasts feminist internal activists approaches between these two industries well demonstrating resistance techniques useful in the legal, as well as spiritual battle field. These factors Katzenstein, discusses, are essential partners to successful internal penetration into the barriers of oppression and inequity within the church and military. Their traditions are long lasting, entrenched within, and empowered by our American society, as bastions of defense and hope, protection and inspiration, the letter and the spirit of the law. Strategies revealed in breaking barriers of sexual oppression within these two institutions dictate, how essential it is to recognize the context in which our active struggles against oppression must occur.
Strategies vary as a function of the strength and traditions of our institutions.
This commentary, is rich with cases, interviews, surveys providing implications that move us into the next millennium with renewed hope inspired by the women who shared in the development of this work. Katzenstein also dialogues with works of authors in many disciplines, philosophy, religion, multicultural ethics, politics, social servants, public administrators, and so many more. She challenges issue of the secular and sacred, demonstrating that oppression knows no bounds. Let us pay a tribute for a work that inspires us in an unconditional activism against oppression where ever it is found.