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Two books which deal with whiteness from a feminist perspective are:
Ruth Frankenberg, *White Women, Race Matters: The Social
Construction of Whiteness*, University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
This is an ethnography dealing with whiteness as experienced by
contemporary unitedstatesian women, but also gives historical
background.
Vron Ware, *Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History*, Verso,
1992.
Investigates the role of ideas about white women in the history of
racism, focusing mainly on nineteenth century Britain, but linking
this to campaigns in Britain against slavery, lynching in the US, and
British imperialism.
Ruth Frankenberg also has an edited collection, *Local Whiteness,
Localizing Whiteness*, forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Another very fine set of essays on whiteness is *White Guys* by Fred
Pfeil, which deals with white masculinity in the 80s and 90s, and
includes chapters on the men's movement, male "rampage" films, etc.
There is an astute review of David Roediger [whose works have been
mention on other H-AFRICA posts] from a feminist position by Dana
Frank in *Socialist Review* v. 24, 1+2, 1995. This special issue
entitled *Arranging Identities* also contains other articles on
whiteness (which I haven't read--yet!): Jasbir K. Puar, "Resituating
Discourses of 'Whiteness' and 'Asianness' in Northern England:
Second-Generation Sikh Women and Constructions of Identity" and
Charles A. Gallager, "White Reconstruction in the University."