| Description |
xxiii, 312 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Contradictions of modernity ; v. 7 |
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Contradictions of modernity ; v. 7
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Politics of Critical Social Theory -- Pt. I. Black Women's Knowledge and Changing Power Relations -- Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited. 1. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: African-American Women and the New Politics of Containment. 2. Coming to Voice, Coming to Power: Black Feminist Thought as Critical Social Theory -- Pt. II. Black Feminist Thought and Critical Social Theory -- On Fighting Words with "Fighting Words" 3. On Race, Gender, and Science: Black Women as Objects and Agents of Sociological Knowledge. 4. What's Going On? Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Postmodernism. 5. When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism -- Pt. III. Toward Justice -- Moving beyond Critique. 6. Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought. 7. Searching for Sojourner Truth: Toward an Epistemology of Empowerment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303) and index |
| Subject |
African American women -- Political activity.
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African American women -- Social conditions.
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Critical theory.
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Feminism -- United States.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
98017051 |
| ISBN |
0816623767 |
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0816623775 |
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