Women and Diversity

• Bulbeck, Chilla: Re-Orienting Western Feminisms: Women's Diversity in a Postcolonial World, Cambridge Unv Pr, 1998, 288pp., ISBN: 0521589754
  
  
• Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie: : The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance, Aunt Lute Books, 1992, 262pp., ISBN: 1879960168
  

  In this collection of essays, the author discusses "Jewish identity, anti-Arab racism, the Gulf War, black-Jewish relations, therapy in the U.S., women owning guns, art and resistance." (Booklist)

  
  
• Lorde, Audre: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Crossing Press, 1984, 192pp., ISBN: 0895941414
  

  Lorde explores ways of increasing empowerment among minority women and the need for women to candidly deal with racism, sexism, and classism. It also promotes the unity of difference. Lorde explores the fear and hatred that exists between black men and women, lesbians and heterosexuals, and black women and white women, insisting that we all must find common ground.

  
  
• Lucassen, L., Willems, W. and Cotaar, A.: : Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups: A Socio-Historical Approach, Mcmillan Press, 1998, 226pp., ISBN: 0312212585
  

  This anthology provides a socioeconomic-historical framework for understanding the marginalization, stigmatization, and persecution of Roma in modern society and in the history of Europe. In bringing these contexts to light, broader links to nationalism, state-formation, ethnicity and migration are made.

  
  
• Reinfelder, Monika (ed.): Amazon to Zami, Toward a Global Lesbian Feminism, Feminist Press, 1998, ISBN: 1558611630
  

  Amazon to Zami explores the existence of a global network of lesbian feminist activists in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, challenging the assumption that lesbianism is a western phenomena.

  
  
• Rosenbloom, Rachel (ed.): Unspoken Rules: Sexual Orientation and Women's Rights, Cassell Academic, 1996, 257 pp., ISBN: 0304337641
  

  A 30 country report documents human rights violations based on sexual orientation, touching on legal, cultural, social and economic issues. This book demonstrates how women's rights and lesbian rights are linked in substantive ways.

  
  
• Tremain, Shelley (ed.): Bodies of Knowledge: Critical Perspectives on Disablement and Disabled WomenWomen, Womens Press, 1999, 200 pp., ISBN: 0889612374
  
  
• Williams, Patricia J.: The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Harvard Unv Pr, 1992, ISBN: 0674014715
  

  Patricia Williams presents an eloquent argument for keeping rights and affirmative action in the legal vocabulary. She also provides a powerful description of the seemingly ineluctable status of black people in the United States today.

  
  
• Wing, Adrien Katherine (ed.): Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader, New York Unviversity Press, 2000, 432 pp., ISBN: 081479338X
  

  This groundbreaking work explores issues such as the nature of feminism, minority women within a majority culture, violence against women, culture, custom and tradition. Contributors are from around the world.