Pt. I. Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives
1. African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination / Barbara Thompson
2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Nee-Crusaders / Ifi Amadiume
3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art / Enid Schildkrout
Pt. II. Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary
4. Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archives / Christraud Geary
5. Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culture / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Pt. III. Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys Into Black Womanhood
6. Picturing the New Negro Woman / Deborah Willis
7. Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen / Carla Williams
8. Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Calixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Baker / Ayo Abietou Coly
9. Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voice / Barbara Thompson.
