Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking Ethnicity and Gender; R.Barot, H.Bradley and S.Fenton SECTION ONE: ETHNICITY, GENDER AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE Gender, Ethnicity and Migration: a New Theoretical Approach; A.Phizacklea Ethnicity, Gender and Equality in the NHS; J.Carter ROSCAs, Ethnicity and Strategy: Suriname Creole Women\'s Saving Clubs in Amsterdam; I.Wetering SECTION TWO: INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURE: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE South Asian Women in Britain, Family Integrity and the Primary Purpose Rule; W.Menski Hindu Widows in Britain: Continuities and Change; S.Firth SECTION THREE: THE SECOND GENERATION: GENDER AND CHANGE South Asian Women and Arranged Marriages in East London; K.Bhopal Cultural Diversity and Religious Conformity: Dimensions of Social Change Among Second-Generation Muslim Women; C.Butler Negotiating Marriage: Young Punjabi Women\'s Assessment of their Individual and Family Interests; H.Bradby SECTION FOUR: ETHNICITY, IDENTITY AND NARRATIVE Weaving New Lives from an Old Fleece: Gender and Ethnicity in Latvian Narrative; V.Skultans A Creative Discourse: Gender Roles in Ethnic Minority Fiction; H.Kanitkar When the Mirror Speaks: the Poetics and Problematics of Identity Construction for Metisse Women in Bristol; J.Ifekwunigwe Bibliography Index