ABSTRACT
The enigma that is US third-world feminism has yet to be fully confronted by theorists of social change. To these late twentieth-century analysts it has remained inconceivable that US third-world feminism might represent a form of historical consciousness whose very structure lies outside the conditions of possibility which regulate the oppositional expressions of dominant feminism. In enacting this new form of historical consciousness, US third-world feminism provides access to a different way of conceptualizing not only US feminist con sciousness but oppositional activity in general; it comprises a formulation capable of aligning such movements for social justice with what have been iden tified as world-wide movements of decolonization.
