The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issuesthe new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonialfeminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural, global, andpostcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience, humanrights, the origins of philosophic issues, philosophic uses of metaphors of thefamily, white antiracism, human progress, scientific progress, modernity, the unityof scientific method, the desirability of universal knowledge claims, and otherideas central to philosophy.