Based on the 1994 Women's Studies Network conference, this text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies. The volume includes chapters by Diana Leonard, Bunie Matlanyane-Sexwale and bel hooks.

Introduction New Frontiers in Women's Studies, Mary Maynard, June Purvis; Section I On the Move: New Agendas for Women's Studies; Chapter 1 Challenging the Boundaries: Towards an Anti-racist Women's Studies, Mary Maynard; Chapter 2 Anti-colonial Subjects? Post-colonial Subjects? Nationalisms, Ethnocentrisms and Feminist Scholarship, Joanna de Groot; Chapter 3 What Happened to Feminist Politics in 'Gender Training'?, Bunie M.Matlanyane Sexwale; Chapter 4 The Political and the Personal: Women's Writing in China in the 1980s, Delia Davin; Chapter 5 Reassessing Representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Militant Feminists in Edwardian Britain: On the Importance of a Knowledge of our Feminist Past, June Purvis; Chapter 6 Gender, Nation and Scholarship: Reflections on Gender/Women's Studies in the Czech Republic, Jitka Male?ková; Chapter 7 Possibilities for Women's Studies in Post communist Countries: Where Are We Going?, Svetlana Kupryashkina; Section II Women in Movement: Identity, Migration and Nationalism; Chapter 8 Resituating Discourses of 'Whiteness' and 'Asianness' in Northern England: Second-generation Sikh Women and Constructions of Identity, Jasbir K. Puar; Chapter 9 Women Who Move: Experiences of Diaspora, Magdalene Ang-Lygate; Chapter 10 The Home of Our Mothers and Our Birthright for Ages'? Nation, Diaspora and Irish Women, Breda Gray; Chapter 11 Boundary Politics: Women, Nationalism and Danger, Jan Jindy Pettman; Chapter 12 Gender, Colonialism and Nationalism Women Activists in Uttar Pradesh, India, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert; Chapter 13 East German Women Five Years after the Wende, Hanna Behrend; Notes on Contributors; Index;