This exciting collection is the first to take an interdisciplinary approach to women and whiteness in Britain. The book came out of the conference of the same name hosted by the Centre for Women's Studies and held at the University of York in April 1999. It contains new material based on original research, and is designed to be accessible to undergraduates as well as being of interest to postgraduates and researchers in the areas of women’s studies, feminist theory, cultural and film studies, sociology, history, and literature.

As well as articles, this book contains the conference abstracts and contact details of other academics working in the field.

This book is now out of print.

UK readers are able to borrow a copy from the national Library system, and you are welcome to visit the The Women's Library in London or the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York to read the book in situ. (Please contact the Centre for Women's Studies before making a special trip; address as Raw Nerve).

CONTENTS

Heloise Brown

Introduction:
White?Women: Beginnings and Endings

Brenda Lewis and Caroline Ramazanoglu

Not Guilty, Not proud: Women 's accounts of their whiteness

Bridget Byrne

Learning 'Whiteness': A white middle-class mother talks about race, class, and schools

Madi Gilkes

Travelling Light: The intersections between Research, Being White, and Foreignness in Vietnam

Ann Kaloski-Naylor with Trev Broughton

Teaching Whiteness

Rachel Connor and Charlotte Crofts

Racial and Gendered Looking across the Literature/Media Divide

Jude Davies and Carol R Smith

Figuring White Femininity: Critique, Investment and the Example of Princess Diana

Cecily Jones

A Darker Shade of White: Gender, Social Class, and the Reproduction of White Identity in Barbadian Plantation Society

Ann Heilmann

Dreams in Black and White: Women, Race and Self-sacrifice in Olive Schreiner's Allegorical Writings

Vron Ware

A Room with a View