In Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future. Etelka Lehoczky discovers how the book's editor, Sunita Mehta, has collected writings by a variety of women to provide an antidote to Western arrogance. Similarly,The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran, translated from the Chinese by Esther Tyldesley,
combines vigorous universalism with a bone-deep cultural authority. However, The Vatican's Women: Female Influence at the Holy See by Paul Hofmann, reinforces the most fatuous of Catholic stereotypes and stands as a reminder to feminists that Western culture and female empowerment do not go hand in hand