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| Preface | |
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| Selections | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Evolution of Feminist Consciousness Among African American Women | |
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| Beginnings: In Defense of Our Race and Sex, 1831-1900 | |
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| Maria Miller Stewart | |
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| Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build | |
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| Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall | |
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| Sojourner Truth | |
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| Woman's Rights | |
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| When Woman Gets Her Rights Man Will Be Right | |
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| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | |
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| Woman's Political Future | |
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| Anna Julia Cooper | |
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| The Status of Woman in America | |
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| Julia A. J. Foote | |
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| Women in the Gospel | |
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| Gertrude Bustill Mossell | |
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| The Opposite Point of View | |
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| A Lofty Study | |
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| Mary Church Terrell | |
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| The Progress of Colored Women | |
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| Ida Wells-Barnett | |
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| Lynch Law in America | |
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| Triumph and Tribulation: Defining Black Womanhood, 1920-1957 | |
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| Elise Johnson McDougald | |
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| The Struggle of Negro Women for Sex and Race Emancipation | |
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| Alice Dunbar-Nelson | |
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| The Negro Woman and the Ballot | |
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| Amy Jacques Garvey | |
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| Our Women Getting into the Larger Life | |
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| Women as Leaders | |
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| Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander | |
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| Negro Women in Our Economic Life | |
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| Florynce "Flo" Kennedy | |
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| A Comparative Study: Accentuating the Similarities of the Societal Position of Women and Negroes | |
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| Claudia Jones | |
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| An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman! | |
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| Lorraine Hansberry | |
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| Simone de Beauvoir and The Second Sex: An American Commentary | |
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| Civil Rights and Women's Liberation: Racial/Sexual Politics in the Angry Decades | |
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| Frances Beale | |
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| Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female | |
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| Mary Ann Weathers | |
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| An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force | |
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| Linda La Rue | |
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| The Black Movement and Women's Liberation | |
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| Patricia Haden, Donna Middleton, and Patricia Robinson | |
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| A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women | |
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| Pauli Murray | |
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| The Liberation of Black Women | |
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| Angela Davis | |
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| Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves | |
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| Michele Wallace | |
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| Anger in Isolation: A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood | |
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| Beyond the Margins: Black Women Claiming Feminism | |
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| The Combahee River Collective | |
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| A Black Feminist Statement | |
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| Cheryl Clarke | |
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| Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance | |
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| Barbara Smith | |
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| Some Home Truths on the Contemporary Black Feminist Movement | |
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| Bell Hooks | |
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| Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory | |
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| Audre Lorde | |
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| Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference | |
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| Deborah K. King | |
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| Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology | |
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| Jacquelyn Grant | |
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| Black Theology and the Black Woman | |
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| Patricia Hill Collins | |
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| The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought | |
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| The Body Politic: Sexuality, Violence, and Reproduction | |
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| Barbara Omolade | |
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| Hearts of Darkness | |
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| Darlene Clark Hine | |
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| Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: Preliminary Thoughts on the Culture of Dissemblance | |
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| Shirley Chisholm | |
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| Facing the Abortion Question | |
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| Beth E. Richie | |
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| Battered Black Women: A Challenge for the Black Community | |
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| June Jordan | |
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| A New Politics of Sexuality | |
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| Paula Giddings | |
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| The Last Taboo | |
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| Pearl Cleage | |
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| What Can I Say | |
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| Evelynn Hammonds | |
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| Missing Persons: African American Women, AIDS, and the History of Disease | |
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| Reading the Academy | |
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| Margaret Walker Alexander | |
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| Black Women in Academia | |
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| Gloria Joseph | |
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| Black Feminist Pedagogy and Schooling in Capitalist White America | |
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| Elizabeth Higginbotham | |
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| Designing an Inclusive Curriculum: Bringing All Women into the Core | |
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| Discourses of Resistance: Interrogating Black Nationalist Ideologies | |
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| Pauline Terrelonge | |
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| Feminist Consciousness and Black Women | |
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| E. Frances White | |
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| Africa on My Mind: Gender, Counterdiscourse, and African American Nationalism | |
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| Barbara Ransby and Tracye Matthews | |
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| Black Popular Culture and the Transcendence of Patriarchal Illusions | |
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| Alice Walker | |
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| In the Closet of the Soul | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |