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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays addresses the issues and concerns raised by the emphasis on society not as a series of homogeneous interlocking blocks, but as a plethora of different, sometimes overlapping and often conflicting communities.
Table of ContentsA place called home - identity and the cultural politics of difference, Jonathan Rutherford; feminism - dead or alive?, Andrea Stuart; welcome to the jungle - identity and diversity in postmodern politics, Kobena Mercer; confinement, Frances Angela; the value of difference, Jeffrey Weeks; black feminism - the politics of articulation, Pratibha Parmar; live for Sharam and die for Izzat, Zarina Bhimji; practices of freedom - "citizenship" and the politics of identity in the age of AIDS, Simon Watney; a nasty piece of work - psychoanalytic study of sexual and racial difference in "Mona Lisa", Lola Young; the third space - interview with Homi Bhabha; cultural identity and diaspora, Stuart Hall.
