This Feminist historical reconstruction offers a scholarly approach to fill the gaps that are present in texts and traditions. Like a patch work quilt it weaves together available petite histories of women’s forgotten accomplishments and places them at the centre of discourse. In order to give voice to the silences and unleashes the hidden powers they contain, Indian Catholic women can utilize the historical reconstructive approach and creatively widen their historical imagination, because it places women at the centre of such feminist reconstructions.

Dr. Sr. Pushpa Joseph, FMM belongs to the congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. She completed her inter disciplinary research in the Department of Christian Studies, University of Madras, where she presently teaches. She has been appointed Professor Mentor by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Cultures and Theologies (IASACT), a concern of the United Board of Higher Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and serves on many national and international bodies of higher education and institutes of higher learning. She has published in the field of feminist, bioethics, religion and subaltern studies.