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The 40 pages that link to Black feminism, each with the reason it gives.

• IntersectionalityNarrower topic: Intersectionality grew from Black feminist analysis of experiences that single-issue politics overlooked.

• Second-wave feminismCompared with: It challenged accounts of women's oppression that treated white women's experiences as universal.

• FeminismBroader topic: It challenges feminist accounts that treat women’s experiences as uniform.

• Black Lives MatterRelated: Its analysis informs movement efforts to address violence and inequality affecting Black women and LGBTQ people.

• Angela DavisRelated: Davis’s analyses of race, gender, and labor belong to a broad Black feminist conversation.

• African-American literatureRelated: Black feminist criticism has transformed interpretations of authors, genres, and literary subjects.

• Sojourner TruthRelated: Truth’s activism is often interpreted through the intertwined struggles against slavery and women’s subordination.

• Feminist theoryRelated: Black feminist thought challenged accounts of gender that treated white women’s experience as universal.

• Black PowerRelated: Black women challenged movement hierarchies while developing analysis grounded in their own experiences.

• Women’s liberation movementRelated: Black feminists challenged movement agendas that treated white women’s experience as universal.

• bell hooksNarrower topic: Her work extends Black feminist critique into education, culture, and intimate life.

• Liberal feminismCompared with: It exposes how universal claims about women's equality can overlook race and unequal lived conditions.

• First-wave feminismRelated: It highlights exclusions that a movement centered on white women’s political claims often obscured.

• Audre LordeNarrower topic: Its concerns and political practice strongly inform Lorde’s essays and activism.

• BeyoncéNarrower topic: Lemonade draws on Black women’s histories and experiences central to this tradition.

• Marxist feminismRelated: Black feminist critique insists that labor and gender cannot be analyzed apart from racial power.

• Combahee River CollectiveNarrower topic: The Collective emerged within this tradition and pressed it toward an explicitly socialist, lesbian politics.

• Socialist feminismCompared with: It challenges socialist-feminist accounts that treat race as secondary or universalize white women’s experience.

• The Color PurpleRelated: Its framework illuminates the novel’s account of overlapping forms of oppression.

• Betty FriedanCompared with: Black feminists challenged accounts of women’s oppression that centered white, middle-class experiences.

• Kimberlé CrenshawRelated: Its analysis of race and gender informed Crenshaw’s account of intersectionality.

• Black studiesRelated: It shares Black studies’ concerns while foregrounding gender and Black women’s political thought.

• A Room of One’s OwnRelated: Black feminist writers challenge accounts of women’s literary history that center white women’s experience.

• Feminist movementBroader topic: It exposed how mainstream movements could overlook race and Black women’s experiences.

• The Feminine MystiqueCompared with: Black feminist perspectives expose the limits of presenting white homemakers’ dissatisfaction as universal.

• Black feminist thoughtNarrower topic: This broader movement provides the activism and politics from which the thought tradition developed.

• Lesbian feminismCompared with: Black feminist critiques exposed how lesbian feminist politics could overlook race and unequal power among women.

• Lorraine HansberryRelated: Hansberry’s writing and activism resisted reducing Black women’s struggles to a single issue.

• WomanismRelated: Its close relationship to womanism makes their overlapping histories and different emphases visible.

• Alice WalkerRelated: Its concerns with intersecting forms of oppression echo Walker’s fiction and activism.

• Black women’s literatureRelated: Its analysis informs many literary treatments of power and identity.

• French feminismCompared with: It challenges accounts of women’s experience that treat race and colonial history as secondary.

• Afro-Brazilian literatureRelated: It illuminates the intertwined racial and gendered pressures represented by Black women writers.

• Erykah BaduRelated: Her public image and lyrics have prompted discussion of Black womanhood and self-definition.

• Gwendolyn BrooksRelated: Brooks’s women and girls resist being reduced to stereotypes or social roles.

• Rebecca WalkerNarrower topic: It supplies a historical foundation for Walker’s writing about race, gender, and feminist belonging.

• Anna J. CooperRelated: Cooper’s writing connected racial justice with women’s education and authority.

• E. Franklin FrazierCompared with: Black feminist scholarship highlights gendered dimensions that Frazier’s broad family analyses did not center.

• Léonora MianoRelated: Her focus on Black women’s voices intersects with debates in Black feminist thought.

• Paulette NardalRelated: Nardal’s writing examined Black women’s position within colonial societies and diaspora communities.