Prolegomenon: "hoeism or whatever": Black girls and the sable letter "b"
Introduction: "a thousand details, anecdotes, stories": mining the discourse on Black womanhood
Black Venus and Jezebel sluts: writing race, sex, and gender in religion and culture
"These hos ain't loyal": white perversions, Black possessions
Theologizing Jezebel: womanist cultural criticism, a divine intervention
"Changing the letter": toward a Black feminist study of religion
The Black church, the Black lady, and Jezebel: the cultural production of feminine-ism
Whose "woman" is this?: reading Bishop T.D. Jakes's Woman, Thou Art Loosed!
Tyler Perry's new revival: Black sexual politics, Black popular religion, and an American icon
Epilogue: dangerous machinations: Black feminists taught us.