The analytical vision. Introduction : the analytical vision / Roseann P. Bell and Bettye J. Parker --
War on African familyhood / Iva E. Carruthers --
Images of Black women in modern African poetry : an overview / Andrea B. Rushing --
"Introduction" to Ama Ata Aidoo's "Dilemma of a ghost" / Karen C. Chapman --
The African heroine / Marie Linton-Umeh --
The awakening of the self in the heroines of Ousmane Sembene / Sonia Lee --
The Caribbean woman as writer / Eintou Apandaye --
Black women poets from Wheatley to Walker / Glorida T. Hull --
The politics of intimarcy : a discussion / Hortense Spillers --
Images of self and race in the autobiographies of Black women / Mary Burgher --
Black Eve or Madonna? A study of the antithetical views of the mother in Black American literature / Daryl C. Dance --
An essay on Alice Walker / Mary Helen Washington --
Alice Walker : "The diary of an African nun" and Du Bois' double consciousness / Chester J. Fontenot --
The women of Bronzeville / Beverly Guy-Sheftall --
The influence of voodoo on the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston / Ellease Southerland --
Bridges and deep water / Jerry D. Ward.
The conversational vision --
Introduction : the conversational vision / Roseann P. Bell --
Ann Petry talks about first novel / James W. Ivy --
Reflections : Arthenia Bates Millican / Bettye J. Parker --
Judgment : Addison Gayle ; Substance : George Kent / Roseann P. Bell --
Commitment : Toni Cade Bambara speaks / Beverly Guy-Sheftall --
Complexity : Toni Morrison's women
Wisdom : an interview with C.L.R. James / L. Anthony-Welch --
Mississippi mothers : roots. Lillie V. McKenzie ; Annie Amiker (Aunt Sis) ; Johnnie Ruth Pearl Ellis (Aunt Saint) ; Lena (Gorgeous) Smith ; Malinda Wango / Bettye J. Parker --
Gayl Jones takes a look at "Corregidora"
The creative vision. Introduction : the creative vision / Beverly Guy-Sheftall --
The collector of treasures / Bessie Head --
An African tribute / Samuel Otoo --
Return of the native / Paule Marshall --
The word is love / Lorna V. Williams --
Mis' Lou / Jacquelyn Furgus Hunter --
Arah : one ; Arah : two ; Letter to the lady # 3 ; Arah : five ; Arah : six ; Poem for a Rasta daughter / Marvin Williams --
Angela Davis / Nicolás Guillén --
The 7:25 trolley / Mari Evans --
Lineage / Margaret Walker --
The women gather / Nikki Giovanni --
Southlands : the double year / Nathaniel Johnson --
Cleaning out the closet / Mae Jackson --
Alice / Paulette Childress White --
Women's lib / Margaret Danner --
Sundown sigh / Melba Joyce Boyd --
Lovesong for Rochelle / Kenneth A. McClane --
Cracked ; Sometimes as women only ; Parade / Gloria Gayles --
Turning corners / Lynn Suruma --
In a minute / Robert Alvin Bell --
from "The book of life" / Haki R. Madhubuti --
The neighborhood / Betty De Ramus --
Solstice / Audre Lourde --
It is deep / Carolyn Rodgers.