WOMEN, FEMINIST IDENTITY AND SOCIETY IN THE 1980's SELECTED PAPERS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- NOTESTOWARD A POLITICS OF LOCATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SEMIOTICTHEORY: SEXUALITY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE -- FEMALE DESIRE AND SEXUAL IDENTITY -- REFERENCES -- BLACKNORTH-AMERICANWOMEN POETS IN THE SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE -- Introduction -- CULTURE-EXTRACULTURAL SPACE -- Some Mechanisms of Exclusion at Work -- White Women's Movement vs. the Black Poet -- MEMORIZING MECHANISMS:THE BLACK POET AND THE ALIEN TEXT -- Oral Tradition as Pre-existent Literary Text -- The Bible Transposed -- The Social Text -- CONGENIAL DIALOGISM -- Black North-American Music -- Longing for Africa: The Missing Sign -- African Spectrum: Seven Glances -- INTERTEXTUAL POLEMIC FACTOR -- Against the Forces of the Oppressor's Codes -- Humour, Parody, Laughter as Cultural Transgressions -- SIGN PROVIDER/SIGN PERCEIVER INTERACTION -- REFERENCES -- 1. Sources -- 2. General -- PRACTICAL CRITICISM: LAW, RACISM AND ART -- WOMEN'S RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS: LATIN AMERICANCOUNTRIES AND THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) -- Women and Latin America. -- Latin American legal provisions regarding women. -- The constitutions. -- Civil law. -- Criminal law. -- Labour Law. -- The feminist struggle in the legal area. How and where. -- Concluding remarks. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- RACISM IN EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF BLACK WOMEN -- Introduction -- Interdisciplinary framework -- Women studies: black and white -- The problem -- Method -- Everyday racism -- A. House hunting -- B. Contacts with neighbors -- C. Work -- D. School -- Racism and Sexism -- Interpretation strategies in the detection of implicit discrimination -- An interpretation fragment -- 1. Own previous experiences.

2. Comparison with other people. -- 3. Own observations -- 4. Comparison with similar situations. -- 5. General beliefs, opinions, expectations and other cognitions -- 6. Comparison with other (black people). -- 7. Opinions of others -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- "I FOUND GOD IN MYSELF AND I LOVED HER/ I LOVED HER FIERCELY": MORE THOUGHTS ON THE WORK OF BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS. -- THE SECOND BIBLE QUILT -- OF HARRIET POWERS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Concluding Remarks -- REFERENCES -- Contributors Notes.