Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective
Letty M. Russellwas one of the world's foremost feminist theologians and a longtime member of the faculty of Yale Divinity School. She died on July 12, 2007, at age 77. She was one of the first women ordained in the United Presbyterian Church and served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Ascension in East Harlem for ten years. She joined the faculty of Yale Divinity School in 1974 and retired in 2001. She wrote and edited numerous books, includingChurch in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church,Dictionary of Feminist Theologies(with J. Shannon Clarkson),andInheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective(with Kwok Pui Lan, Ada Maria Isasi Dias, and Katie Cannon).Kwok Pui-lanis William F. Cole Professor of  Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ada Maria Isasi-Diazis Professor of Ethics and Theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where she is also founder and co-Director of the Hispanic Institute of Theology.Katie Geneva Cannonis the Annie Scales Rogers Professor for Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. She was the first African-American woman to be ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).