Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

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.

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