ABSTRACT
Similarly, alterity is embedded in various factors. Being women is not the same as being Christian women or Pakistani or Russian-speaking or Caucasian women. In each there is a different aspect highlighting the distinctiveness, the uniqueness and the otherness. Religion, nationality, language, and race, respectively, stress alterity in these examples. One can have several identities simultaneously, but the aspects are not equally significant at all times. It is the context in which identities are enacted that determines which factor demands greater emphasis.
