Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk

Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagar, Delores Williams finds a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. Through Hagar's story of poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God, she traces-American women from slavery to the present day. First published twenty years ago, Sisters in the present day. First published twenty years ago, Sisters in the Wilderness has been acclaimed as a modern classic.