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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.

• ForewordBeverly Guy-SheftallAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Black Feminism and Continental PhilosophyMaria del Guadalupe Davidson, Kathryn T. Gines, and Donna-Dale L. Marcano1. Black Feminism, Poststructuralism, and the Contested Character of ExperienceDiane Perpich 2. Sartre, Beauvoir, and the Race/Gender Analogy: A Case for Black Feminist PhilosophyKathryn T. Gines 3. The Difference That Difference Makes: Black Feminism and PhilosophyDonna-Dale L. Marcano 4. Antigone’s Other Legacy: Slavery and Colonialism in Tègònni: An African AntigoneTina Chanter 5. L Is for... : Longing and Becoming in The L-Word’s Racialized EroticAimee Carrillo Rowe 6. Race and Feminist Standpoint TheoryAnika Maaza Mann 7. Rethinking Black Feminist Subjectivity: Ann duCille and Gilles DeleuzeMaria del Guadalupe Davidson8. From Receptivity to Transformation: On the Intersection of Race, Gender, and the Aesthetic in Contemporary Continental PhilosophyRobin M. James 9. Extending Black Feminist Sisterhood in the Face of Violence: Fanon, White Women, and Veiled Muslim WomenTraci C. West 10. Madness and Judiciousness: A Phenomenological Reading of a Black Woman’s Encounter with a SaleschildEmily S. Lee 11. Black American Sexuality and the Repressive Hypothesis: Reading Patricia HillCollins with Michel FoucaultCamisha Russell 12. Calling All Sisters: Continental Philosophy and Black Feminist ThinkersKathy GlassAfterword: Philosophy and the Other of the Second SexGeorge YancyContributor NotesIndex