The Jewish Woman in Contemporary Society

Adrienne Baker is a lecturer in Women's Studies at Birkbeck College, London University, and Director and Tutor in Counselling at Regent's College, London. She is also a member of the Chief Rabbi's working party researching issues of concern to Jewish women.

"In , editor R. Cochran of Pepperdine University's School of Law has assembled a valuable collection of sixteen essays by American legal scholars that focus perspectives of several religious traditions on particular legal issues... This volume would represent a good addition as a supplemental text to a law school or graduate seminar class on law and religion."-Religious Studies Review, "A tremendous addition to the literature bounded by the topics of ethics, religion, public policy, and law. . . . A remarkable contribution in its conception and execution." -Ellen S. Pryor, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University "A truly remarkable collection of first-rate essays by a variety of scholars, one more illuminating than the other." -Amitai Etzioni, author of "Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy" "This timely book urges readers to look at the courthouse 'from a faith context .' [A]n exciting picture of the relationship between pluralistic faiths and law." -"Choice",