The politics of Black feminist thought - Distinguishing features of 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 - U.S. Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-346) and index Originally published in 1990 originally published in Routledge Classics, 2009 Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that provided the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought and its canon."-Publisher's description Here Collins provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. "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.
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