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[PAST EVENT] Lecture by Patricia Hill Collins
April 1, 2011
7:30pm
Location
Jepson Alumni Center, University of Richmond
Women's Studies and Gender Studies are at an important crossroads. On the one hand, intersectionality, which calls for examining multiple identities across intersections of race, gender, class, age, sexuality, ability, and nationality, is widely accepted as an important approach within gender scholarship. Yet, at the same time, one might ask whether gender scholarship continues to advance emancipatory ideas of social justice. This talk will investigate the contested relationship between intersectionality and emancipatory knowledge.
Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nation. Her iconic first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, published in 1990, won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for significant scholarship in gender, and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In 2008, she became the 100th President of the American Sociological Association.
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Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nation. Her iconic first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, published in 1990, won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for significant scholarship in gender, and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In 2008, she became the 100th President of the American Sociological Association.
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