Polyamory describes a form of relationship where it is possible, valid and worthwhile to maintain (usually long-term) intimate and sexual relationships with multiple partners simultaneously. Nevertheless, debates around polyamory have often suffered from an evasion of power in the ultimate and community contexts within which the concept arose. In this introduction, we trace the political contexts in which polyamory arose, investigate their implicit assumptions from an intersectional, multi-issue perspective, and position ourselves socially and politically as editors of this special issue. We hope to provide a critical introduction to polyamory. Where we stand: Positionality and intersectionality This volume was born out of our joint participation in the Gender and Ethnicity Research Discussion Group. The group was formed in summer 1996, by several postgraduate students and activists. Our monthly meeting place was Cema, the now defunct North London bar of our friend Rabiye Cinar, which hosted gay and migrant nights, and attracted a very diverse crowd. Most of our group's participants, too, were minoritized, often negotiating multiple subordinations in their lives. We shared the belief that multiple axes of oppressions interacted simultaneously, and that dominant gender and sexuality debates often resisted this insight. The group nurtured us intellectually as well as emotionally, and helped us survive the stresses of British society in and outside the university. It

What were the experiences of daughters-in-law in the patriarchal household? Did they ever resist? By analyzing the life stories of twenty-two “modern” women living in complex households of colonial Taiwan, this article suggests that experiences of daughters-in-law differed a great deal from each other, according to family structures, family life cycles, and life cycles of the individual. It also argues that most of the daughters-in-law did rebel. Whether their resistance could be successful, however, depended a great deal on the rising of modern discourses, employment opportunities outside the home, and the possessed economic resources of the daughter-in-law and her natal family.

Publisher: Durham: Duke University PressPrice: $26.95Number of Pages: 312 pp. paperback ISBN: 9780822363194A feminist and queer of colour, Sarah Ahmed lectured in Women's Studies at Lancaster University and was later appointed by Goldsmiths College, University of London. During 2016, however, Ahmed would resign from her post at Goldsmiths-in protest against institutional discrimination against sexual harassment. Coming from an interdisciplinary background, Ahmed has studied philosophy, women's studies, and cultural studies. Within all of these fields, she finds women of colour's writing most empowering and sees it as her genealogy (p. 15). This is the approach that she adopts in this book. Living a Feminist Life is her most recent work that has developed out of her previous series of books (Willful Subjects