Women Rising, Meghan Tschanz
Women Rising, Meghan Tschanz
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Women Rising
Learning to Listen, Finding Our Voices

Author: Meghan Tschanz, Carolyn Custis James

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/11/2021


Synopsis

Fresh out of college, hating her job, and searching for meaning, Meghan Tschanz left everything to join a mission trip around the globe, and quickly witnessed oppression experienced by women that she never thought possible.

Over the next several years, she befriended women around the globe who had survived sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, and violence so extreme Meghan wondered at the women's survival. Through listening to their stories, Meghan started to notice a pattern—one that pointed to systems of injustice that harmed and held women back—systems, Meghan realized, she was often complicit in.

She was changed.

Returning to the United States, Meghan became keenly aware of how the teachings and messaging surrounding women in her own upbringing were part of the problem. In the process, she began to find her voice, one that spoke out against injustice and moved her into tension with her Christian community.

Women Rising is Meghan Tschanz's personal journey of transformation. But it's also a Christian blueprint for anyone wanting to confront injustice against women while pointing to a biblical standard for gender equality.

About Meghan Tschanz

Meghan Tschanz is a writer, speaker, and former missionary who is passionate about empowering women and reclaiming feminism for the Christian faith. A 2010 graduate of the University of Colorado, she's a prolific blogger and host of the Faith and Feminism podcast. She and her husband, Dustin, live in northeast Georgia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Abby

This book is one woman’s story, but at the same time, it’s many women’s stories. And to a degree it’s my story. Tschanz details, first, the experience of being raised in the evangelical church, steeped in the misogyny of purity culture. Interwoven are the stories of women from around the globe who h......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Summary: A global mission trip awakens the author both to the injustices women face throughout the world and the patterns of subjection she learned in childhood that held her back and which she learned to name and use her voice to speak against. Meghan Tschanz grew up in a good conservative church an......more

Goodreads review by Currey

A really powerful memoir delving into some hard topics. Meghan does an incredible job of telling her story and letting the reader enter in to a world of ministry to victims of sex trafficking. You can see through her story how God changed her way of seeing the world. I felt so many emotions as I rea......more

Goodreads review by Megan

Women Rising was a timely and interesting read. Tschanz calls it a memoir, but that is only a part of her book. It’s also part research paper. Yes, research paper. Tschanz is very clear about her intentions for writing this book—that she wants to tell her story, help others avoid her mistakes, and co......more

Goodreads review by Eady

This book will break you and remake you in the area of gender equality, if you let it! I appreciated Meghan's personal experience as a missionary to various countries, trying to help change and expose issues of sex slavery and women's rights globally. She shared heart breaking stories of women who ha......more