Preface to the First Edition.  Preface to the Second Edition.  Acknowledgements  Part 1: The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought  1. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought  2. Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist Thought  Part 2: Core Themes in Black Feminist Thought  3. Work, Family and Black Women's Oppression  4. Mammies, Matriarchs and other Controlling Images  5. The Power of Self-Definition  6.

The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood  7. Black Women's Love Relationships  8. Black Women and Motherhood  9. Rethinking Black Women's Activism  Part 3: Black Feminism, Knowledge and Power  10. US Black Feminism in Transnational Context  11. Black Feminist Epistemology  12. Toward a Politics of Empowerment.