Ms. Gudorf is a Catholic theologian who has written a number of articles on ethics, religion, reproductive health, women's issues, sexuality and spirituality. She has traveled to Latin and South America and Eastern Europe on various religious and feminist research projects. Her published books include Body, Sex and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics, 1994, Victimization: Examining Christian Complicity, 1992; and, Women's Consciousness: A Reader in Feminist Ethics, 1985. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion, Society of Christian Ethics and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.