A critical legal study of religion and state relations in Israel focusing on the religiously entrapped Palestinian-Arab individuals.

This best-selling anthology is a unique introduction to feminism and women’s studies. It presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyses, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women’s lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women’s experiences, primarily in the United States, considering both commonalities and differences among women and appreciating women’s diverse approaches to living and fostering change.

This is the first collection of essays published in the United Kingdom to focus upon a writer who already enjoys an international reputation. It is a part of Atwood's unique achievement that she manages to sustain her popularity with reading publics around the world as she brings feminist perspectives to bear upon personal and private experience and upon the public structures of power which shape individual lives. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, and including European and North American contributions, the essays gathered here explore how as a woman writer Atwood articulates the pressures and determinations which condition the feminine before allowing it to speak for itself, and how as a Canadian she explores the complicated relationships between representation and self-representation in a world of vastly uneven distributions of power and responsibility. A unique combination of feminist and postcolonial perspectives, it examines Atwood's poetry and short fiction as well as her novels.

Preface p. ix Introduction: National Boundaries/Transnational Identities Grant H. Cornwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard p. 1 Part I. Multiculturalism and Ethnicity: Contested Ownership of National Culture 1 Miscegenation as a Metaphor for Nation-Building: The "Douglarization" Controversy in Trinidad and Tobago Eve Walsh Stoodard and Grant H. Cornwell p. 29 2 The Chinese in Thailand: Ethnicity, Power, and Cultural Opportunity Structures Ansil Ramsay p. 51 3 "To Be French": Franco-Maghrebians and the Commission de la Nationalite Judith DeGroat p. 73 4 Spectacular Imaginings: Performing Community in Guatemala Kirk W. Fuoss and Randall T.G. Hill p. 93 Part II. Multiculturalism and Race: Alternative Constructions of Black and White 5 Brazil: Interactions and Conflicts in a Multicultural Society Edimilson de Almeida Pereira and Steven F. White p. 123 6 Songs in a Strange Land: Dual Consciousness and the Narrative of African American Identity in the United States Joseph Kling p. 143 7 Letting the Side Down: Personal Reflections on Colonial and Independent Kenya Celia Nyamweru p. 169 8 Race and the Formation of Cuban National and Cultural Identity Henley C. Adams p. 193 Part III. Multiculturalism and Politics: Constitutional Approaches to Inequality 9 The Zimbabwe Constitution: Race, Land Reform, and Social Justice Patricia Alden and John Mw. Makumbe p. 215 10 Bosnia: Two Days in November William Hunt p. 239 11 The Crisis of the Mexican State and the Nation: Chiapas as Metaphor Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy p. 263 12 China's Ethnicities: State Ideology and Policy in Historical Perspective Anne Csete p. 287 13 Official Multiculturalism in Canada: Between Virtue and Politics Louis Dupont and Nathalie Lemarchand p. 309 Index p. 337 About the Contributors.

Using the experience of immigration policy and the rise of Pauline Hanson's neo-fascist One Nation party in Australia, Hage (anthropology, U. of Sydney) argues that white racists and tolerant multiculturists both see their nation structured around a white culture that they control, with aboriginal people and migrants as exotic objects. His study was first published in 1998 by Pluto Press in Australia and Comerford and Miller in Britain. c. Book News Inc.