![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() DuBois as prominent examples of Black male feminists. Beverly Guy-Sheftall (1986) contends that both men and women can be "Black feminists" and names Frederick Douglass and William E. The term Black feminist has also been used to apply to selected African-Americans-primarily women-who possess some version of a feminist consciousness. Some of the women she cited as 'black feminists' were clearly not feminist at the time they wrote their books and still are not to this day" (1983, 94). As Cheryl Clarke points out, "I criticized Scott. Yet indiscriminately labeling all Black women in this way simultaneously conflates the terms woman and feminist and identifies being of African descent-a questionable biological category-as being the sole determinant of a Black feminist consciousness. From this perspective, living as Black women provides experiences to stimulate a Black feminist consciousness. One current response, explicit in Patricia Bell Scott's (1982b) "Selected Bibliography on Black Feminism," classifies all African-American women, regardless of the content of our ideas, as Black feminists. The first concerns the thorny question of who can be a Black feminist. ![]() Two interrelated tensions highlight issues in defining Black feminist thought. Widely used yet rarely defined, Black feminist thought encompasses diverse and contradictory meanings. ![]()
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