A hugely varied collection of writings by women of colour, concerning feminism and the racial currents inherent in the feminist movement. When I say "hugely varied" I mean it - there are formal and informal pieces, poetry, letters, every type of style and tone. And while the authors have a wide range of backgrounds, there's no denying that this is an America-centric book - there's acknowledgement that feminism is a global phenomenon, but the experiences of these writers exist primarily in an American context.

Given the subheading ("Writings by Radical Women of Color") I rather expected the pieces themselves to be radical as well. But that is, I think, a perspective coloured by history - from my position in 2017 what's being said here seems eminently sensible and often mainstream now, but I can see that at the time of writing (in the late 1970s, very early 1980s) it was not so at all. I was particularly taken aback at the recounting of a Black nationalist pamphlet of the early 1970s that was really explicit about the inferiority of women, but a bit of thought on my part showed how much the writers in this anthology had to struggle with the problems of intersectionality, and the problems they had with both racism and sexism - there was an ongoing observation from many about the racism they experienced from white women, for example, and that's something that's still a problem today.

I suppose the fact that some of these ideas have become more mainstream is encouraging and speaks of progress, but it still seems pretty plain to me that there's a long way to go.