# Black feminist thought

> Black feminist thought.

<Black feminist> thought.

## Preface to First Edition

## Preface to Second Edition

## Acknowledgments

## Part 1: The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought

### Chapter 1. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought

### Chapter 2. Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist Thought

## Part 2: Core Themes in Black Feminist Thought

### Chapter 3. Work, Family, and Black Women’s Oppression

### Chapter 4. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images

### Chapter 5. The Power of Self-Definition

### Chapter 6. The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood

### Chapter 7. Black Women’s Love Relationships

### Chapter 8. Black Women and Motherhood

## Part 3: Black Feminism, Knowledge, and Power

### Chapter 10. U.S. Black Feminism in Transnational Context

### Chapter 11. Black Feminist Epistemology

### Chapter 12. Toward a Politics of Empowerment