Themanummer met artikelen over onder meer ras en representatie in de discussie over natuurlijke geboorte, kinderen van aziatisch-amerikaanse afkomst, postkoloniale ervaringen met migratie, en etnische identiteit van witte vrouwen in koloniaal Jamaica. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: 'Other mothers': race and representation in natural childbirth discourse/ door Sheryl Nestel: Drawing deviding lines: an analysis of discursiverepresentations of Amerasian 'Occupation babies'/ door Kyo Maclear: Identity, community and the postcolonial experience of migrancy/ door Amina Jamal: Speaking truth to power: oppositional research practice and colonial power/ door Dawn Sutherland: Making white ladies: race, gender and the production of identities in late colonial Jamaica/ door Honor Ford-Smith.
Australian case that involved. Aboriginal woman as a defendant. The authors argues that the battered women syndrome did not challenge gender bias in the law but instead served to reinforce a range of racist and sexist assumptions about the defendant. This paper explores the intersection of race and gender within the context of the battered woman syndrome.