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.