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Title: Nice photos, purple prose hard to swallow.
Review: Filled with enchanting photographs from days gone by, "Behold the Women" is nice to look at but a simply awful read. Having created a montage of nostalgic photographs from "the old days," e.g., pre-Vaticann II, the author felt obligated to annotate his montage with would-be paens to "the good sisters" from a grab-bag of assorted clerics and laity. The majority, if not all, of the photographs contained therein were archival and as such, lose some of their historic significance, as their documentation is nil. Whoever designed this book, and I fear it might be Mr. Paulos himself, violated just about every fundamental principle of book design - it's so naive, it's almost charming! If you can skip the saccharine prose and just focus on the photographs, "Behold the Women" supplies about 15 minutes of visual gratification.
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