Maria del Guadalupe Davidson & Kathryn Sophia Belle 
Convergences 
Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy

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.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Foreword


Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy


Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, and Donna-Dale L. Marcano

1. Black Feminism, Poststructuralism, and the Contested Character of Experience


Diane Perpich


2. Sartre, Beauvoir, and the Race/Gender Analogy: A Case for Black Feminist Philosophy


Kathryn T. Gines


3. The Difference That Difference Makes: Black Feminism and Philosophy


Donna-Dale L. Marcano


4. Antigone’s Other Legacy: Slavery and Colonialism in Tègònni: An African Antigone


Tina Chanter


5. L Is for . . . : Longing and Becoming in The L-Word’s Racialized Erotic


Aimee Carrillo Rowe


6. Race and Feminist Standpoint Theory


Anika Maaza Mann


7. Rethinking Black Feminist Subjectivity: Ann du Cille and Gilles Deleuze


Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

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


Robin M. James


9. Extending Black Feminist Sisterhood in the Face of Violence: Fanon, White Women, and Veiled Muslim Women


Traci C. West


10. Madness and Judiciousness: A Phenomenological Reading of a Black Woman’s Encounter with a Saleschild


Emily S. Lee


11. Black American Sexuality and the Repressive Hypothesis: Reading Patricia Hill

Collins with Michel Foucault


Camisha Russell


12. Calling All Sisters: Continental Philosophy and Black Feminist Thinkers


Kathy Glass

Afterword: Philosophy and the Other of the Second Sex


George Yancy

Contributor Notes

Index

Sobre o autor

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.