Full Description
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.
A range of themes-race and gender, sexuality, otherness, sisterhood, and agency-run throughout this collection, and the chapters constitute a collective discourse at the intersection of Black feminist thought and continental philosophy, converging on a similar set of questions and concerns. These convergences are not random or forced, but are in many ways natural and necessary: the same issues of agency, identity, alienation, and power inevitably are addressed by both camps. Never before has a group of scholars worked together to examine the resources these two traditions can offer one another. By bringing the relationship between these two critical fields of thought to the forefront, the book will encourage scholars to engage in new dialogues about how each can inform the other. If contemporary philosophy is troubled by the fact that it can be too limited, too closed, too white, too male, then this groundbreaking book confronts and challenges these problems.
Contents
Foreword
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy
Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, and Donna-Dale L. Marcano
1. Black Feminism, Poststructuralism, and the Contested Character of Experience
Diane Perpich
2. Sartre, Beauvoir, and the Race/Gender Analogy: A Case for Black Feminist Philosophy
Kathryn T. Gines
3. The Difference That Difference Makes: Black Feminism and Philosophy
Donna-Dale L. Marcano
4. Antigone's Other Legacy: Slavery and Colonialism in Tègònni: An African Antigone
Tina Chanter
5. L Is for... : Longing and Becoming in The L-Word's Racialized Erotic
Aimee Carrillo Rowe
6. Race and Feminist Standpoint Theory
Anika Maaza Mann
7. Rethinking Black Feminist Subjectivity: Ann duCille and Gilles Deleuze
Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
8. From Receptivity to Transformation: On the Intersection of Race, Gender, and the Aesthetic in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Robin M. James
9. Extending Black Feminist Sisterhood in the Face of Violence: Fanon, White Women, and Veiled Muslim Women
Traci C. West
10. Madness and Judiciousness: A Phenomenological Reading of a Black Woman's Encounter with a Saleschild
Emily S. Lee
11. Black American Sexuality and the Repressive Hypothesis: Reading Patricia Hill
Collins with Michel Foucault
Camisha Russell
12. Calling All Sisters: Continental Philosophy and Black Feminist Thinkers
Kathy Glass
Afterword: Philosophy and the Other of the Second Sex
George Yancy
Contributor Notes
Index
