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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment

Angela Davis
- 01 Nov 1993 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 4, pp 351-353
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This article is published in Teaching Philosophy.The article was published on 1993-11-01. It has received 5787 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Feminist philosophy & Social consciousness.

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The stories we tell: the lives and friendship of two older black lesbians

TL;DR: The authors used narrative analysis to chronicle the lives of two older Black lesbians (73 and 85 years of age) and found that their friendships and relationships with other older lesbians were similar to ours.
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Female Adolescent Sexuality

Deborah L. Tolman
- 05 Mar 2002 - 
TL;DR: This paper explore the resonance between experiences that are labeled "sexual problems" among adult women and adolescent girls' normative descriptions of their sexual experiences and explore the ways in which becoming sexual as an adolescent girl within the confines and constructs of patriarchy lays the groundwork for the kinds of “sexual problems that are most evident in the female adult population.
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Stuck in the land of disability? The intersection of learning difficulties, class, gender and religion

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the discrepancy between formal rights to full social inclusion and the lived experiences of young adults with learning difficulties and demonstrate how the research collaborators resisted their devalued social construction and attempted to create and affirm themselves as competent social actors.
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From intersectionality to interference: Feminist onto-epistemological reflections on the politics of representation

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the debate on intersectionality as the dominant approach in gender studies, with an emphasis on the politics of representation, and provided an overview of this interdisciplinary debate, culminating in an affirmative answer to the question: should we move from intersectionality to interference?
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Faith and feminism: how African American women from a storefront church resist oppression in healthcare.

TL;DR: In this study, black feminist standpoint epistemology is used in methodological approach and analysis to understand how a small group of African American church-going women use religious beliefs to help them cope with and resist the racism and discriminatory objectification they encounter in healthcare encounters.