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

• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ; INTRODUCTION ; THE BASIS FOR THE DEBATES ; Challenging Imperial Feminism ; Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory ; Angry Women are Building ; Preface: Black Women in White America ; Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist ; Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought ; The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House ; La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness ; ENGAGING THE DEBATES ; 'Race', Gender, and the Concept of Difference in Feminist Thought ; Moving the Mountains, Making the Links ; The Persistence of Vision ; Bold Omissions and Minute Depictions ; 'Race', Identity and Cultural Criticism ; The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought ; The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Research Process ; 'Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something'. African-American Women's Historical Novels ; The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies ; U.S. Third World Feminism and Oppositional Consciousness ; Decolonising Feminism ; SHIFTING THE DEBATES ; Black Women's Employment and the British Economy ; Women, Migration, and the State ; People or Population ; Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran ; Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment ; Black (w)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality ; 'Other' Women and Postnational Feminism ; Environmental Action, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India's Experience ; Difference, Diversity, Differentiation ; Crosscurrents, Crosstalk ; Genealogies, Legacies, Movements ; Exploding the Canon ; INDEX

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