Details

Subject(s)

• Feminism—United States [Browse]
• African American women [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Series

• Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Perspectives on gender

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-325) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0415924839 (hb)

LCCN

99029144

OCLC

41211570

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