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Record Nr.

UNINA9910171010103321

Autore

Hill Collins Patricia

Titolo

Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / / Patricia Hill Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-96013-5

1-135-96014-3

0-415-96472-5

1-280-35502-6

0-415-90597-4

0-203-90005-7

Edizione

[2nd edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages)

Collana

Perspectives on gender

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminism - United States

African American women

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

2nd edition.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.