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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill Collins, Particia.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Perspectives on gender ; v. 2.

Perspectives on gender ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

United States.

African American women.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 265 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Contents:

Part One. The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought; Defining Black Feminist Thought

Part Two. Core Themes in Black Feminist Thought. Work, Family and Black Women's Oppression; Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images; The Power of Self-Definition; Black Women and Motherhood; Rethinking Black Women's Activism; The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood; Sexual Politics and Black Women's Relationships

Part Three. Black Feminism and Epistemology. Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology; Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.

Notes:

"First published in 1990."

"Typeset in Times and Gill Sans."

"Cover design by Greta D. Sibley."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0044451377

0044451385