ABSTRACT
Women’s lives are currently changing rapidly across many different dimensions of their lives. Unsurprisingly, this has been accompanied by an equally dramatic growth of interest in women’s studies, with a corresponding boom in the associated literature across its many constituent disciplines. This poses a formidable task to those seeking to add to this literature. Both theoretically and materially, the subject matter constitutes a shifting terrain, a target that potentially moves faster than an accurate aim can be taken at it. The relevant literature is not only broadly based by subject matter but also demanding of an interdisciplinary approach. For the latter, compartmentalisation of the different social sciences has meant the availability of few analytical precedents upon which to draw and the necessity for any one scholar to tread on theoretical territory that is both unfamiliar and intellectually intimidating.
