First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part 1 Introduction: making connections - women's studies, women's movements, women's lives, Mary Kennedy et al. Part 2 Identities and feminisms: beyond difference - women and coalition politics, Nira Yuval-Davis; between feminism and Orientalism, Joanna Liddle and Shirin M. Rai; the precariousness of heterosexual feminist identities, Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson. Part 3 Redefining knowledge: love and romance as objects of feminist knowledge, Stevi Jackson; in God's image or in man's image - a critique of patriarchy in Christian theology, Lisa Isherwood and Dorothea McEwan; layers of difference - the significance of a self-reflexive research practice for a feminist epistemological project, Julia Hallam and Annecka Marshall; backlash in historical context, Sylvia Walby. Part 4 Feminist research and education: researching adolescent girls' perceptions of unwanted sexual attention, Carrie Herbert; and Gill came tumbling after - gender, emotion and a research dilemma, Gillian Reynolds; women's studies as empowerment of non-traditional learners in community and youth work training - a case study, Louise Morley; disability as a focus for innovation in women's studies and access strategies in higher education, Julie Matthews and Lynne Thompson. Part 5 Feminists in or out of the academy?: academia and the feminist movement in Latin America, Virginia Vargas.