Black feminist thought knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill Collins, Patricia
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2000.
Edition:Rev. 10th anniversary ed.
Subjects:
African American women.
Feminism > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5636630
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The social construction of black feminist thought. The politics of black feminist thought
  • Distinguishing features of black feminist thought
  • pt. 2. Core themes in black feminist thought. Work, family, and black women's oppression
  • Mammies, matriarchs, and other controlling images
  • The power of self-definition
  • The sexual politics of black womanhood
  • Black women's love relationships
  • Black women and motherhood
  • Rethinking black women's activism
  • pt. 3. Black feminism, knowledge, and power. U.S. black feminism in transnational context
  • Black feminist epistemology
  • Toward a politics of empowerment.

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