Women have been fighting for gender equality in many religious traditions for decades. What strategies and discourses have been used to preclude women from religious leadership and to marginalize women within public religious spaces? How have women gained access and claimed religious authority within religious institutions? How do these strategies differ across religious communities? What kinds of resistance have women encountered as they struggle to attain religious authority? How has the Internet cultivated different kinds of religious authority for women? Through a combination of readings ,discussions, films, and conversations with living figures, students will develop the ability to critically and empathetically interpret issues of gender, change, transnationalism, and religious authority in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.