This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker and South African writer Zoe Wicomb.

This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin and class in women's oppression. Richards has chosen for her subjects three women writers who represent different global positions in a contemporary global configuration.