Full Description
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's Black Feminist Thought has become a landmark book and the first to skilfully synthesise 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 2026 Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author, replacing the Preface and the Epilogue of the Thirtieth Anniversary edition.
Contents
Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the 2026 Routledge Classics Edition Acknowledgements Part 1: The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought 1. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought 2. Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist Thought Part 2: Core Themes in 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. The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood 7. Black Women's Love Relationships 8. Black Women and Motherhood 9. Rethinking Black Women's Activism Part 3: Black Feminism, Knowledge, and Power 10. U.S. Black Feminism in a Transnational Context 11. Black Feminist Epistemology 12. Toward a Politics of Empowerment. Glossary Bibliography Index
