Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope

by Townes, Emilie M.

• ISBN13: 9781555406837
• ISBN10: 1555406831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett's participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett's life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen. nature of leadership for Black women,

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
IDA B. Wells-Barnett: Regal, Intolerant, Impulsive	7	(10)
The Use of Biography and Autobiography to Reconstruct the Social and Moral Perspectives of African-American Women	17	(24)
African-American Women and the United States Ethos, 1892-1920: Emerging Social Class and the Nature of Work	41	(28)
African-American Women and the United States Ethos, 1892-1920: Spirituality, Domesticity, Social Reform, and the Women's Club Movement	69	(38)
IDA B. Wells-Barnett: Her Social and Moral Perspectives	107	(24)
IDA B. Wells-Barnett: The Anti-Lynching Crusade	131	(42)
Toward A Contemporary Womanist Christian Social Ethic	173	(46)
Bibliography	219