Providing advice and information on a range of health matters - cancer, hypertension, sickle-cell anaemia, AIDS, Lupus - this book takes up political issues that impede the delivery of good healthcare - lack of accessibility to care and culturally insensitive treatment within the traditional Health Service. It also offers insight into the ways in which black women deal with the issues of domestic violence, sexual abuse, homophobia, female circumcision, ageing and teenage motherhood. The book contains contribution from Elizabeth Anionwu, Beryl Gilroy, Audre Lorde, Patricia Palmer, Ann Phoenix, Khaleghl Quinn and Alice Walker. Melba Wilson has also written Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest.