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1. Enclosure and Active Apostolates: Developments in Female Religious Life in Europe from the Council of Trent until Saint Vincent de Paul (Luigi Mezzadri)

2. Changes in the Position of Women in Society and in the Church in the Twentieth Century, with a Special Focus on Italy (Adriana Valerio)

3. Basic Characteristics of the Dominican Sisters in the Twentieth Century (Helen Alford)

4. The Contribution of Dominican Sisters International to the Development of the Dominican Family (Margaret Ormond)

5. Dominican Sisters against Social Injustice in Hungary in the Communist Period (Imelda Farkas)

6. The Story of the Cabra Dominicans in the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa (Margaret Kelly)

7. Resistance to the Madness of Evil and Injustice: Dominican Sisters Confront the Genocide and Its Aftermath in Rwanda (Emmanuel Ntakarutimana)

8. An Appreciation of Peace-building: A Personal Encounter with the Dominican Sisters in Vietnam (Madelein Fredell)

9. A Battle for Dignity: Elisabeth Voisin, Worker-Sister in France (Marie-Laure Dénès)

10. Working with the Sem Terra in Brazil (Irmã Madalena de Santos)

11. 'LA CLE' … a Key to Opportunity: Overcoming the Social Exclusion of Immigrants in France (Marie-Laure Dénès)

12. Dominican Sisters in Pakistan: Upholding Women's Dignity in a Muslim Environment (Anna Morrone)

13. Strengthening the Voice of Women in Iraq (Marie Therese Hanna)

14. Sr Pétronille Kayiba: A Liberation Theologian in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Roger Gaise)

15. The Story of the Bethany Dominican Sisters (Hannah Rita Laue and Svenja Barbara Ibscher-Holz)

16. Portraits, Sketches and Snapshots: Maryknoll Sisters around the World (Bernice Kita)

17. Dominican Sisters in Peru and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Elena Cornejo Luna)

18. The Turning Tide: Dominican Women and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland (Geraldine Smyth)

19. Active Resistance against Nuclear Weapons in the United States (Mary Patricia Beatty)

20. Luigia Tincani: A Twentieth Century Foundress (Cesarina Broggi)

21. A Century of Dominican Sisters Promoting Justice in the United States (Kaye Ashe)

22. A Pioneer of Inter-religious Dialogue: Rose Thering (Michelle Olley)

23. Witnessing in a Multi-cultural Society: Dominican Sisters in Sweden (Madeleine Fredell)

24. The Dominican Charism Lived with and from the Perspective of the Poor (Beatriz Alicia and Maria Leonor Charria Angulo)

25. Promoting an Ecological Spirituality and Lifestyle (Honora Werner)

26. Preaching Justice through Socially-responsible Investing (Patricia Daly)