I approached this book I own, fearing a claim feminist 'too virulent. Not at all! Anne Soupa analysis with deep and even tenderness, the characters of twelve women that have marked the life of Jesus. There are figures of real women, nor mawkish nor glorious. This is a kind of anti-dote very illuminating, who will deliver us gradually a yoke of 'machismo' clerical enclosing us and imprison us for so many centuries .. Jesus loved and respected women as much as her male disciples .. may our Catholic Church inspiration one day and show greater and genuine opening vis-à-vis the theological contribution and profoundly human woman ..