| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第7-18页 |
| ·A BRIEF SUMMARY OF TONI MORRISON’S LITERARY CAREER | 第7-9页 |
| ·A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF BLACK MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS | 第9-11页 |
| ·WOMANISM | 第11-15页 |
| ·African-American Women and Feminism | 第11-13页 |
| ·Definitions of Womanism | 第13-15页 |
| ·MORRISON’S WOMANIST IDEAS | 第15-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO | 第18-28页 |
| ·EVA, HANNAH, AND SULA: AN ALIENATED MOTHERLINE | 第18-22页 |
| ·SULA: A REBEL AGAINST THE COMMUNITY NORMS | 第22-28页 |
| ·Sula and Nel: Selfhood and Community | 第22-23页 |
| ·Sula and Eva: Conflict and Conformity | 第23-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE | 第28-39页 |
| ·RUTH-LENA-CORINTHIAN TRIO: BIRDS CAGED IN THE PATRIARCHAL HOUSE | 第28-32页 |
| ·PILATE-REBA-HAGAR TRIO: VICTIMS OF WHITE IDEOLOGY OF PHYSICAL | 第32-39页 |
| ·Pilate: An Ideal Womanist but a Failed Mother | 第33-36页 |
| ·Hagar: A Self Lost in the Mirror of White Standard of Beauty | 第36-39页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR | 第39-48页 |
| ·SETHE: A DESPERATE WARRIOR | 第39-42页 |
| ·SETHE AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY | 第42-44页 |
| ·BELOVED, SETHE, AND DENVER: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE | 第44-48页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第48-51页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第51-53页 |
