Feminism does not solely concern the oppression of women as women. It is also concerned with eradicating the various forms of oppression affecting women such as the sexist, racist, classist, economic, and cultural oppressions. Black women, in such patriarchal and racially divided societies, are influenced by the double jeopardy of such racial and sexist oppressions. Smith asserts: "Since a black woman, for example, cannot separate her race and her sex―these axes of her identity intersect and are always present in her lived experience. She can never be just a black person; she can never be just a woman either" (qtd. in Dicker 7).                   Women, in such a patriarchal society, wanted to free themselves from the constraints and oppressions caused by patriarchy; a social system in which men rule and women are pushed into positions of