Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / Patricia Hill Collins.

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 self-definition -- The sexual politics of black womanhood -- Black women's love relationships -- Black women and motherhood -- Rethinking Black women's activism -- U.S. Black feminism in transnational context -- Black feminist epistemology -- Toward a politics of empowerment.

Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of black feminist intellectuals and writers. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of a range of prominent thinkers and draws from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, to provide a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that gave the first synthetic overview of black feminist thought and its canon.