Black Feminist Thought and why it Matters Today

Abstract

1. The politics of Black feminist thought -- 2. Defining 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. Black women and motherhood -- 7. Rethinking Black women's activism -- 8. The sexual politics of Black womanhood -- 9. Sexual politics and Black women's relationships -- 10. Toward an afrocentric feminist epistemology -- 11. Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment.