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The article discuss the concept of transnational feminism, and the history of global socialist feminism. Topics include that transnational feminism has failed due to its Western-centric framework; the recognition of the alliance between post-socialist feminists and post-colonial feminists; and the development of post-colonial and post-socialist studies with race.

This article, drawing on selected feminist magazines of the 1980s, particularly Feminist Arts News (FAN) and GEN, offers a textual 'braiding' of narratives to re-present a history of Black British feminism. I attempt to chart a history of Black British feminist inheritance while proposing the politics of (other)mothering as a politics of potential, pluralistic and democratic community building, where Black thought and everyday living carry a primary and participant role. The personal-mothering our children-is the political, affording a nurturing of alterity through a politics of care that is fundamentally antiracist and antisexist. I attempt to show how Black feminist thought can significantly contribute to democracy in the present and how Black British history and thought, as fundamentally antiracist and anticolonial, can generate a reinvention much needed in the present of a shared British history. I argue for feminist intervention premised upon a politics of care, addressing through activist mothering the urgency of Black absence from prestigious institutions. Such debilitating absence in Britain inhibits the development of scholarship, distorts feminist history and seriously concerns potential Black feminists. From diverse texts, I develop a genealogical narrative supplemented through memory work. This 'gathering and re-using' privileges Black women's theorising as a crucial component of the methodological métissage, which includes auto-theorising to develop ideas of resemblance in relation to Black British feminism and feminist kinship. The resultant 'braiding', I suggest after Lionnet, questions the absence of intersubjective spaces for reflection on Black British feminist praxis, indicating a direction for British feminists of all complexions. Attentive to the 1980s as historical context while invoking the maternal, I consider what is required to engage generationally, counterwrite the academy and pursue a dynamic process of transformation within a transnational feminism that challenges Black British absence from academic knowledge production, while nurturing its presence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents conversations generated from three roundtable discussions among editorial Collective members about the history of the "Feminist Review," in light of the journal's 25th anniversary. The authors' encounters with the publishing Collective, the Women's Liberation Movement, and the intellectual energy associated with feminist thinking; Theoretical conflicts such as class definition, race, intellectual elitism, sexuality, and socialist feminism.

Relates the history of "Feminist Review" since the 1980s. The journal's attempt to overcome issues surrounding black- and white-dominated feminisms, identity, and feminist politics and broaden the participation of various groups in the collective; The journal's commitment to political change.

Presents an article focusing on the ideological and political aspects of organizing as lesbians in the mid-1980s. History of a battle in feminist politics over the sexual practice of sadomasochism (SM); How the London Lesbian and Gay Centre had to decide if it should allow SM groups to meet there; Discussion of SM and its lesbian feminist manifestations; View that the London Women's Liberation Movement has its own perspective on feminism; Background on revolutionary and radical feminism and groups; Various publications, including "Spare Rib" magazine.

Explores changes in gender relations in Puerto Rico, which resulted from policies and challenges of feminist movements there. Examination of weaknesses of development strategies for women in Puerto Rico; Information on the process of industrialization; Establishment of Operation Bootstrap by the United States; Why women labor was encouraged.

Examines feminism in Australia, and the emergence of feminist campaign for indigenous rights. Affiliation of key Australian women's organizations with the British Commonwealth League; Representation of Australian Aborigines by the women organizations; Opposition against inter-war policies of biological assimilation.

Discusses the four Women and Labour conferences held in Australia between 1978 and 1984. History of Australian feminist activism during that period; Detailed information on racism and feminist activism of immigrant women; Tensions within feminist discourses; Links between the Women and Labour conferences and the women's movement.

Mentions the impact of feminism that is the focus of this special anniversary issue of "Feminist Review". Articles in this issue providing various perspectives on the women's liberation movement over the past two decades; The socialist-feminism legacy of the 1969 movement.