Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
The Basis for the Debates
Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar: Challenging Imperial Feminism
bell hooks: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
Paula Gunn Allen: Angry Women are Building
Gerda Lerner: Preface: Black Women in White America
Angela Y. Davis: Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist
Elizabeth Spelman: Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought
Audre Lorde: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Gloria Anzaldua: La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness
Engaging the Debates
Mary Maynard: 'Race', Gender, and the Concept of Difference in Feminist Thought
Molara Ogundipe-Leslie: Moving the Mountains, Making the Links
Donna Haraway: The Persistence of Vision
Trinh T. Minh-ha: Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions
Lola Young: 'Race', Identity and Cultural Criticism
Patricia Hill Collins: The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
Ann Phoenix: The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Research Process
Barbara Christian: 'Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something'. African-American Women's Historical Novels
Ann duCille: The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies
Chela Sandoval: U.S. Third World Feminism and Oppositional Consciousness
Marnia Lazreg: Decolonising Feminism
Shifting the Debates
Gail Lewis: Black Women's Employment and the British Economy
Annie Phizacklea: Women, Migration, and the State
Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva: People or Population
Haleh Afshar: Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran
Nira Yuval-Davis: Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment
Evelyn Hammonds: Black (w)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
Ien Ang: 'Other' Women and Postnational Feminism
Bina Agarwal: Environmental Action, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience
Avtar Brah: Difference, Diversity, Differentiation
Ruth Frankenberg and Lata Mani: Crosscurrents, Crosstalk
M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty: Genealogies, Legacies, Movements
Marianne H. Marchand and Jane L. Parpart: Exploding the Canon
Index

About the Author

Professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara

Reviews

Brings together a wide variety of readings of and by women of colour from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Dr Fareda Banda, Lecturer in Law, School of Oriental and African Studies