This issue set out to explore diaspora feminist engagements with the idea and reality of Africa: the gendered experiences of diaspora populations and the influence of the diaspora on gender relations and feminist engagements within Africa. With the following articles: 'The relevance of black feminist scholarship: a Caribbean perspective' by Violet Eudine Barriteau : 'A feminist review of the idea of Africa in Caribbean family studies' by Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley : 'Racial and gender inequality in Latin America: Afro-descendent women respond' by Helen I. Safa : 'Con-di-fi-cation': Black women, leadership and political power' by Carole Boyce Davies : 'The trek for a sense of belonging' by Annecka Leolyn Marshall : 'Fashioning women for a brave new world: gender, ethnicity and literary representation' by Paula Morgan : 'A tribute to Coretta Scott King: 1927–2006' by Simidele Dosekun : and 'A triangular trade in gender and visuality: the making of a cross-cultural image-base' by Patricia Mohammed.
Beatriz Pesquera and Denise Segura both assistant professors of sociology and Chicano studies at the University of California are researching how employment affects the political consciousness of Latina women regarding traditional roles, feminism, and ethnicity.
Hoofdstuk uit een bundel over feministisch onderzoek, met artikelen over de verschillen binnen en tussen vrouwen die in en buiten de feministische praktijk zowel als middel tot onderdrukking en verzet worden gebruikt. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Learning from the outsider within: the sociological significance of black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins: Eating the other / bell hooks: Feminist criticism, 'The yellow wallpaper', and the politics of color in America / Susan Lanser