ABSTRACT
As its title suggests, this volume marks the impact of devolutionary politics on the female subject's changing sense of 'home and belonging'. Whilst firmly located within the broader context of the major social and cultural upheavals taking place across Europe at the present time, these essays focus specifically on the situation in the British Isles, with feminist academics from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Eire re/negotiating issues of gender, class, ethnicity, and national/regional identity through their readings of two literary/cultural texts: an approach and methodology that pays tribute to the central role of imagination and 'story-telling' in the the fonnation ofboth subjects and communities.1
