Daughters of freedom

1. Women, church and society in Australia in the last two hundred years : an overview

2. Women of courage and conviction: pioneers of the fisrt half century of european settlement

3. Paragons of virtue and mystery: clergy and bishops' wives in the Victorian era and beyond

4. The price of independence: the women of Roman Catholic orders, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

5. Handmaids of the church, and more: laywomen of the Victorian era

6. Purposeful, undervalued Christian employment: women in non-Roman Catholic orders to 1914

7. Undreant-of fulfilment: the role of the woman missionary to World War I

8. A worthy use of gifts of leadership: women missionaries between the wars

9. Paving the way for recognition: women in orders between the wars

10. Out of the cocoon: the role of laywomen between the wars

11. An era of greater freedom and creativity: women in orders, 1939 to the 1990s

12. An influence out of all proportion to their numbers: women missionaries, 1939 to the 1990s

13. Towards freedom, ecumenism and leadership: laywomen in the church, 1939 to the 1990s

14. The struggle for a share of leadership: the ordination issue, 1939 to the 1990s

Conclusion.