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List of contents
Contributors
Preface
1 Moving in from the margins: Gender as the centre of cultural contestation of power relations in south India - Kalpana Ram
2 Ethno-religious communities and gender divisions in Bangladesh: Women as boundary markers - Santi Rozario
3 Housemaids: The effects of gender and culture on the internal and international migration of Indonesian women - Kathy Robinson
4 The politics of difference: Feminism, colonialism and decolonisation in Vanuatu - Margaret Jolly
5 Through their own eyes: An interpretation of Aboriginal women's writing - Jan Larbalestier
6 Representing the 'second generation': subjects, objects and ways of knowing - Gill Bottomley
7 Multiculturalism and feminism - Jeannie Martin
8 The family: in the national interest? - Marie de Lepervanche
9 Gender, class and ethnic relations: The domestic and work experiences of Italian migrant women in Australia - Ellie Vasta
10 Domesticity and Latin American women in Australia - Vanda Moraes-Gorecki
11 Racism, sexism and sociology - Jan Pettman
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
GILL BOTTOMLEY, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University, is the author of After the Odyssey and co-editor of Family in the Modern World. MARIE DE LEPERVANCHE is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney and is the author of Indians in a White Australia and co-editor of Crossing Boundaries: Feminism and the critique of knowledges. JEANNIE MARTIN is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Technology Sydney. Gill Bottomley and Marie de Lepervanche co-edited The Cultural Construction of Race and Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia.
Summary
Do writings about ethnicity, class and gender form a 'holy trinity' or challenge previous unidimensional analyses? Intersexions aims to understand the processes by which relations of power are maintained, reproduced and resisted. It also examines modes of representation within areas such as social theory, feminism, and development theory.
