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Black Feminist Thought

Summary

Black Feminist Thought (1990) by Patricia Hill Collins is a foundational text in feminist sociology systematically developing Black women's standpoint epistemology, the matrix of domination, and intersectionality as an analytical framework.

Core Contribution

Systematized intersectionality and standpoint epistemology; established Black feminist thought as a distinct intellectual tradition.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • intersectionality
  • Black feminism
  • standpoint epistemology
  • matrix of domination

Historical Influences

Kimberlé Crenshawbell hooks Black feminist tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Patricia Hill Collins Black feminism sociology

Allied Works

Gender Trouble Ain't I a Woman

Contemporaries & Peers

Gender Trouble feminist theory literature

Minds Influenced

Intersectionality scholarship feminist methodologydiversity studies

Intellectual Posterity

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