It has taken centuries, even millennia, for women to attain full equality with regard to social status, opportunities, and wealth. Gender equality and women's poverty keep popping up in quiet and popular discourses. Books have been written on the subjects, but this one tackles these from a unique point of view. Written from a theological and legal perspective, it goes beyond the usual analysis and posits that the oppression of women is both historical and current, resulting from patriarchal cultural systems and structures that permeate the private and public spheres of societal living and interactions. The book describes women's poverty, showing the issue as broader and more complex than previously understood. This book is useful for theologians and lawyers as an academic and tutorial treatise; and is also good for popular reading.

Née et élevée dans une région rurale du Kenya, Lucy W. Julius a suivi une formation juridique et théologique. Elle est enseignante, conférencière en droit et en théologie, juriste et prédicatrice. Lucy vit à Nairobi, au Kenya.