Introduction

This volume presents new ideas about class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women’s theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives, contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which the authors live. The contributors write about their experiences of class in Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, India, Israel, Korea, New Zealand, Poland and the USA. Many of the authors have lived in more than one country or region and are able to make comparisons and illuminate differences and similarities between them.