Invisible bodies, invisible work: nineteenth-century American womanhood and the pastoral of the American homescape -- A "sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century -- The black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance -- Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts movement -- Locating the Black female subject: late-twentieth-century African American women poets and the landscape of the body.