Aandacht voor de snelle groei van economische globalisering en transnationalisme en van etnische conflicten en gedwongen migratie. Hoofdstukken over burgerschap, multiculturalisme, diaspora, en sociale bewegingen, maar tevens over belangrijke ontwikkelingen binnen anti-deportatiecampagnes, anti-fascisme, onderwijs, de Southall Black Sisters en het tegenstrijdige gebruik van etniciteit als een middels om racisme te bestrijden.
Contributors consider the emergence of Latina Pentecostal clergy in the United States and the success of the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in remaining independent of male-dominated denominational structures. Among other topics, the authors discuss Chinese immigrant women who embraced the relative freedom offered by Protestant religion, African American women who assumed religious authority through their historical writing, and the struggles of women faith healers in defining their role amid medical and evangelical professionalism.
Twenty essays provide readers with a unifying theme, and an understanding of history and continuing changes in gender relations. The chosen works discuss female institution building and American feminism, working-class women and sexuality, the professionalization of birth control, the sexual division of labor in the auto industry during World War II, the arrival of women in New York's Chinatown, the ERA, fair pay for working women, and much more.