In this special issue selected presentations from the symposium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project. The project was founded in 1984 by professor Martha A. Fineman. Fineman's vision created and sustains the rich tradition of focusing a feminist, legal and theoretical lens on issues ranging from the socio-economic and geopolitical to the institutional and metaphysical.
In this special issue on feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean an article on lesbian feminism in reply to the two 'Marcha de lesbianas feministas' held in 2003 and in 2004 in Mexico City. Sueli Carneiro writes about 'blackening feminsm', taking racism as a system of oppression with an impact on gender relations in all societies, and integrating the consequences of this position within feminist praxis and theory. Shown also are some elements of Afro-descendant women's political practices that precede theoretical feminism as it emerged in the West. Indigenous women call for a fight on several fronts, like racism, sexism and lesbianism, and at the same time demand political action characterized by the search for alliances beyond divisions of race and class. Different lines of autonomous feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean are described.
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.