Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
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向内部局外人学习：黑人女权主义思想的社会学意义
DOI：
10.2307/800672
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发表时间：
1986
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
P. Collins
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作者：
P. Collins
长期以来，黑人女性在学术界一直处于边缘地位。我认为，许多黑人女性知识分子创造性地利用了她们的边缘性——她们的“局外人”身份——来产生黑人女权主义思想，反映了对自我、家庭和社会的特殊立场。我描述并探讨了这一思想中三个特征主题的社会学意义：（1）黑人女性的自我定义和自我评价； (2) 压迫的环环相扣的性质； (3)美国黑人妇女文化的重要性。在考虑了黑人女性作为局外人如何利用这些关键主题来对现有社会学范式产生独特的立场之后，我得出的结论是，其他社会学家也可以通过更加信任自己的个人和文化传记的创造潜力而受益。
Black women have long occupied marginal positions in academic settings. I argue that many Black female intellectuals have made creative use of their marginality—their “outsider within” status–to produce Black feminist thought that reflects a special standpoint on self, family, and society. I describe and explore the sociological significance of three characteristic themes in such thought: (1) Black women's self-definition and self-valuation; (2) the interlocking nature of oppression; and (3) the importance of Afro-American women's culture. After considering how Black women might draw upon these key themes as outsiders within to generate a distinctive standpoint on existing sociological paradigms, I conclude by suggesting that other sociologists would also benefit by placing greater trust in the creative potential of their own personal and cultural biographies.