Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment /
Patricia Hill Collins.
- [2nd ed.]
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- xvii, 357 p. ; 22 cm.
- Routledge classics .
Originally published in 1990; first published in Routledge Classics, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-346) and index.
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 sel f-definition -- The sexual politics of black womanhood -- Black women's love relationships -- Black women and motherhood -- Rethinking Black w omen's activism -- U.S. Black feminism in transnational context -- Blac k feminist epistemology -- Toward a politics of empowerment.