GILL BOTTOMLEY, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University, is the author of "After the Odyssey" and co-editor of "Family in the Modern World". MARIE DE LEPERVANCHE is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney and is the author of "Indians in a White Australia" and co-editor of "Crossing Boundaries: Feminism and the critique of knowledges". JEANNIE MARTIN is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Technology Sydney. Gill Bottomley and Marie de Lepervanche co-edited "The Cultural Construction of Race" and "Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australi...