Special on whiteness. Next to decentralization and historicalization of 'whiteness' an intersectional detection of an structural and symbolic meaning. With the following articles: 'Nicht Weiss Weiss Nicht: Überschneidungen zwischen Critical Whiteness Studies and feministischer Theorie' by Hanna Hacker: 'Denying the Coloured Mother': Gender and Race in South Africa' by Natasha Distiller and Meg Samuelson: 'Emanzipation als koloniale Fiktion: Zur sozialen Position Weisser Frauen in den deutschen Kolonien': 'Dis/Connecting Whiteness: Biographical Perspectives on Race, Class, Masculinity and Sexuality in Britain c. 1850-1930' by T.G. Ashplant: 'Geschichte, Sprache, Symptombildung: Anmerkungen zu neueren Arbeiten zur Rassen- und Geschlechterpolitik des Nationalsozialismus' by Johanna Gehmacher.
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership.