Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins
720 pages
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. Patricia Hill Collins' Black Feminist Thought has become a landmark book and the first to skilfully synthesize the many strands of Black feminist thought into a powerful, coherent argument for social justice. Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without, providing a rich interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. Drawing from fiction, poetry, music, and oral history, the result is a brilliantly crafted and revolutionary book whose message is as important today as upon its first publication. This Routledge Classics edition, which includes a new Preface by the author, replaces the Thirtieth Anniversary edition.
CoverHalf TitleTitle PageCopyright PageTable of ContentsPreface to First EditionPreface to Second EditionAcknowledgmentsPart 1: The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought1. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought2. Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist ThoughtPart 2: Core Themes in Black Feminist Thought3. Work, Family, and Black Women’s Oppression4. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images5. The Power of Self-Definition6. The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood7. Black Women’s Love Relationships8. Black Women and Motherhood9. Rethinking Black Women’s ActivismPart 3: Black Feminism, Knowledge, and Power10. U.S. Black Feminism in Transnational Context11. Black Feminist Epistemology12. Toward a Politics of EmpowermentNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex