The second edition of my book Gender and Religion: the Dark Side of Scripture was published earlier this year and is now available from Amazon. Why a second edition? It seemed to me an appropriate time in view of threats to women around the world. In the US, the present political campaign is a good reminder that we could easily lose programs important to women.

Barbara Crandall M.D., UCLA geneticist, is the author of Gender and Religion, a work of non-fiction that explains the effect religions have had on women's progress.