womanism

• “But Walker's work has always been about the experiences and inner lives of black women – she coined the term "womanism" that describes a movement of black feminists who felt ignored by mainstream feminism.”

  The Guardian: Alice Walker

• “Lindsay uses images and text to provide an image of Alice Walker, who originally coined the term womanism in her book In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “Black women who share feminist ideals but associate feminism with white women sometimes prefer to talk about "womanism,”

  Feminism's Identity Crisis

• “Perhaps, feminists who diverge from conventional feminism and claim a more personal feminism, such as womanism, are content.”

  Serendip's Exchange -

• “Then, this discussion of womanism had us reconsidering feminism.”

  Global Feminist Link Love: March 8-14 « Gender Across Borders

• “While womanism at its heart is pro-woman, it is also about understanding the communal value of all people of color, reported by the Guardian.”

  Race Ignored in the Feminist Blogosphere « Gender Across Borders

• “A review of the literature informs me that post-structuralism, womanism, libertarianism, postmodernism, transnationalism, and queer, critical and post-colonial theory are all central to third wave ideology.”

  Daniel Krotz: Third Wave Feminism

• “If feminism is routinely placed first it sets up womanism as a ridiculous offshoot.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “I noticed that much of what womanism espouses and had to offer fit my worldview.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “We continue to need womanism/feminism because this is the only social organization that asserts female agency and rights.”

  Archive 2009-10-01

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