ABSTRACT
Many feminists have criticized psychoanalysis for its failure to address race and class specificity and thus for its privileging of a conception of gender based on the white, middle-class, nuclear family. Abel acknowledges the merits of this critique. Nevertheless, she maintains that psychoanalysis is capable of accommodating race and class difference, and she discusses two texts in which psychoanalysis is used effectively to situate gender in the context of race and class.
