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
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.
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