Collins Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0709-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Patricia Hill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Framing the Issues: Intersectionality and Critical Social Theory
1. Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry 21
2. What's Critical about Critical Social Theory? 54
Part II. How Power Matters: Intersectionality and Intellectual Resistance
3. Intersectionality and Resistant Knowledge Projects 87
4. Intersectionality and Epistemic Resistance 121
Part III. Theorizing Intersectionality: Social Action as a Way of Knowing
5. Intersectionality, Experience, and Community 157
6. Intersectionality and the Question of Freedom 189
Part IV. Sharpening Intersectionality's Critical Edge
7. Relationality within Intersectionality 225
8. Intersectionality without Social Justice? 253
Epilogue. Intersectionality and Social Change 286
Appendix 291
Notes 295
References 331
Notes 353

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of numerous books, most recently, Intersectionality (with Sirma Bilge) and On Intellectual Activism.