Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy

Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy

ISBN-10:
1438432666
ISBN-13:
9781438432663
Pub. Date:
10/01/2010
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10:
1438432666
ISBN-13:
9781438432663
Pub. Date:
10/01/2010
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy

Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy

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Overview

A range of themes—race and gender, sexuality, otherness, sisterhood, and agency—run throughout this collection, and the chapters constitute a collective discourse at the intersection of Black feminist thought and continental philosophy, converging on a similar set of questions and concerns. These convergences are not random or forced, but are in many ways natural and necessary: the same issues of agency, identity, alienation, and power inevitably are addressed by both camps. Never before has a group of scholars worked together to examine the resources these two traditions can offer one another. By bringing the relationship between these two critical fields of thought to the forefront, the book will encourage scholars to engage in new dialogues about how each can inform the other. If contemporary philosophy is troubled by the fact that it can be too limited, too closed, too white, too male, then this groundbreaking book confronts and challenges these problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438432663
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 10/01/2010
Series: SUNY series in Gender Theory
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Maria del Guadalupe Davidson is Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is coeditor (with George Yancy) of Critical Perspectives on bell hooks. Kathryn T. Gines is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University and Founding Director of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers. Donna-Dale L. Marcano is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College.

Table of Contents

Foreword Beverly Guy-Sheftall ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy Maria del Guadalupe Davidson Kathryn T. Gines Donna-Dale L. Marcano 1

Chapter 1 Black Feminism, Poststructuralism, and the Contested Character of Experience Diane Perpich 13

Chapter 2 Sattre, Beauvoir, and the Race/Gender Analogy: A Case for Black Feminist Philosophy Kathryn T. Gines 35

Chapter 3 The Difference That Difference Makes: Black Feminism and Philosophy Donna-Dale L. Marcano 53

Chapter 4 Antigone's Other Legacy: Slavery and Colonialism in Tègònni: An African Antigone Tina Chanter 67

Chapter 5 L is for...: Longing and Becoming in The L-Word's Racialized Erotic Aimee Carrillo Rowe 85

Chapter 6 Race and Feminist Standpoint Theory Anika Maaza Mann 105

Chapter 7 Rethinking Black Feminist Subjectivity: Ann duCille and Gilles Deleuze Maria del Guadalupe Davidson 121

Chapter 8 From Receptivity to Transformation: On the Intersection of Race, Gender, and the Aesthetic in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Robin M. James 135

Chapter 9 Extending Black Feminist Sisterhood in the Face of Violence: Fanon, White Women, and Veiled Muslim Women Traci C. West 157

Chapter 10 Madness and Judiciousness: a Phenomenological Reading of a Black Woman's Encounter with a Saleschild Emily S. Lee 183

Chapter 11 Black American Sexuality and the Repressive Hypothesis: Reading Patricia Hill Collins with Michel Foucault Camisha Russell 201

Chapter 12 Calling All Sisters: Continental Philosophy and Black Feminist Thinkers Kathy Glass 225

Afterword: Philosophy and the Other of the Second Sex George Yancy 241

Contributor Notes 249

Index 255

What People are Saying About This

Kelly Oliver

Convergences is an excellent and timely collection by mostly young scholars working at the intersections of critical race theory, feminism, and continental philosophy. This unique book expands the scope of both Black feminism and continental philosophy. (Kelly Oliver, author of Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media)

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