ABSTRACT
This chapter examines white feminist claims for its concerns and priorities with white, middle class women who conceal the variety and diversity of human experience and subjectivity. The study of gender can no longer be assumed to be based upon the experiences of white, middle class women, but must examine the influence of colour, culture and 'race' and the implications this has for women and their individual experiences. The chapter explains the analysis of households in the UK and in India. The household has often been taken as a unit to be approached for obtaining information about individuals in a population. It is crucial to examine the influence of 'race' and how this may affect definitions of households and relations within them. 'Race' infuses itself into the research process and into the interview situation in much the same way that it has been argued a feminist methodology should do and shared gender or sex does.
