Feminism and the Politics of Difference

University and has recently accepted an appointment at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She has edited or co-edited four anthologies of women's and multicultural writings. She is the editor of Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct and A Reader in Feminist Knowledge (Routledge, 1990). She has published numerous critical essays (nationally and internationally) on feminist literary theory and on multiculturalism in its various formations. She co-edited Striking Chords: Multicultural Literary Interpretations (1992) and was one of the compilers of A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers (1992). Anna Yeatman was foundation professor of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato, 1991-93. She is professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research interests cover feminist theory, the implications of globalization for the polity, the restructuring of the professions and higher education. She has undertaken a number of public policy consultancies, including two research reports for the Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs. Recent publications include Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State, Allen & Unwin 1990; editor and contributor to a special issue of Social Analysis (no. 30, 1991) on 'Postmodern Critical Theorizing'; and a book on Postmodernism and the Revisioning of the Political, forthcoming Routledge, New York 1993.

• Introduction 1. Feminism and the politics of irreducible differences: Multiculturalism/ethnicity/race 2. Feminisms, reading, postmodernisms': Rethinking complicity 3. Authentic voice': Anti-racist politics in Canadian feminist publishing and literary production 4. Pretty deadly tidda business 5. Love me tender, love me true, never let me go . A Sri Lankan reading of Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries—A Rural Tragedy 6. Changing contexts: Globalization, migration and feminism in New Zealand 7. Colonizing women: The maternal body and empire 8. Timing differences and investing in futures in multicultural (women's) writing 9. Of black angels and melancholy lovers: Ethnicity and writing in Canada 10. All-owning spectatorship 11. Little girls were little boys: Displaced femininity in the representation of homosexuality in Japanese girls' comics 12. Sexism, racism and Canadian nationalism 13. Slash and suture: Post/colonialism in 'Borderlands/La rontera: The New Mestiza' 14. Voice and representation in the politics of difference