GILL BOTTOMLEY, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University, is the author of After the Odyssey and co-editor of Family in the Modern World. MARIE DE LEPERVANCHE is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney and is the author of Indians in a White Australia and co-editor of Crossing Boundaries: Feminism and the critique of knowledges. JEANNIE MARTIN is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Technology Sydney. Gill Bottomley and Marie de Lepervanche co-edited The Cultural Construction of Race and Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia.

• ContributorsPreface1 Moving in from the margins: Gender as the centre of cultural contestation of power relations in south India - Kalpana Ram2 Ethno-religious communities and gender divisions in Bangladesh: Women as boundary markers - Santi Rozario3 Housemaids: The effects of gender and culture on the internal and international migration of Indonesian women - Kathy Robinson4 The politics of difference: Feminism, colonialism and decolonisation in Vanuatu - Margaret Jolly5 Through their own eyes: An interpretation of Aboriginal women's writing - Jan Larbalestier6 Representing the 'second generation': subjects, objects and ways of knowing - Gill Bottomley7 Multiculturalism and feminism - Jeannie Martin8 The family: in the national interest? - Marie de Lepervanche9 Gender, class and ethnic relations: The domestic and work experiences of Italian migrant women in Australia - Ellie Vasta10 Domesticity and Latin American women in Australia - Vanda Moraes-Gorecki11 Racism, sexism and sociology - Jan PettmanNotesBibliographyIndex