Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

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Author: Patrici Collins

ISBN-10: 0415964725

ISBN-13: 9780415964722

Category: General & Miscellaneous

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In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

1. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought 2. Defining Black Feminist Thought 3. Work, Family, and Black Women's Oppression 4. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images 5. The Power of Self-Definition 6. Black Women and Motherhood 7. Rethinking Black Women's Activism 8. The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood 9. Sexual Politics and Black Women's Relationships 11. Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment