The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought

by Phillips, Layli

• ISBN13: 9780415954112
• ISBN10: 0415954118
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Readeris the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker'¬"s African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi'¬"s African womanism and Clenora Hudson-Weems'¬" Africana womanism, to its present-day expression as a global, anti-oppressionist perspective rooted in the praxis of everyday women of color, this interdisciplinary reader traces the rich and diverse history of a quarter century of womanist thought. Featuring selections from over a dozen disciplines by top womanist scholars from around the world, plus several critiques of womanism, an extensive bibliography of womanist sources, and the first ever systematic treatment of womanist thought on its own terms, Layli Phillips has assembled a unique and groundbreaking compilation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xix
Womanism: On Its Own
Layli Phillips
Part I Birthplaces, Birthmothers: Womanist Origins
Alice Walker's Womanism	3	(18)
Coming Apart (1979)	3	(9)
Alice Walker
Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson (1981)	12	(7)
Alice Walker
Womanist (1983)	19	(2)
Alice Walker
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi's African Womanism	21	(16)
Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English (1985)	21	(16)
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Clenora Hudson-Weems's Africana Womanism	37	(20)
Cultural and Agenda Conflicts in Academia: Critical Issues for Africana Women's Studies (1989)	37	(7)
Clenora Hudson-Weems
Africana Womanism (1993)	44	(13)
Clenora Hudson-Weems
Part II Womanist Kinfolk: Sisters, Brothers, Daughters, and Sons on Womanism
Sisters and Brothers: Black Feminists on Womanism	57	(28)
What's in a Name? Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond (1996)	57	(12)
Patricia Hill Collins
A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism (1998)	69	(16)
Michael Awkward
Daughters and Sons: The Birth of Womanist Identity	85	(32)
Who's Schooling Who? Black Women and the Bringing of the Everyday into Academe, or Why We Started The Womanist (1995)	85	(11)
Layli Phillips
Barbara McCaskill
To Be Black, Male, and``Feminist'': Making Womanist Space for Black Men (1997)	96	(21)
Gary L. Lemons
Part III Womanist Theory and Praxis: Womanism in the Disciplines
Theology	117	(42)
Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voices (1986)	117	(9)
Delores S. Williams
Roundtable Discussion: Christian Ethics and Theology in Womanist Perspective (1989)	126	(33)
Cheryl J. Sanders
Katie G. Cannon
Emilie M. Townes
M. Shawn Copeland
Bell Hooks
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Literature and Literary Criticism	159	(14)
Some Implications of Womanist Theory (1986)	159	(6)
Sherley Anne Williams
A Womanist Production of Truths: The Use of Myths in Amy Tan (1995)	165	(8)
Wenying Xu
History	173	(20)
Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke (1989)	173	(20)
Elsa Barkley Brown
Theater and Film Studies	193	(14)
Dialogic Modes of Representing Africa(s): Womanist Film (1991)	193	(14)
Mark A. Reid
Communication and Media Studies	207	(26)
A Womanist Looks at the Million Man March (1996)	207	(6)
Geneva Smitherman
Assessing Womanist Thought: The Rhetoric of Susan L. Taylor (2000)	213	(20)
Janice D. Hamlet
Psychology	233	(14)
Womanist Archetypal Psychology: A Model of Counseling for Black Women and Couples Based on Yoruba Mythology (2006/1995)	233	(14)
Kim Marie Vaz
Anthropology	247	(22)
Portraits of Mujeres Desjuiciadas: Womanist Pedagogies of the Everyday, the Mundane and the Ordinary (2001)	247	(22)
Ruth Trinidad Galvan
Education	269	(28)
Giving Voice: An Inclusive Model of Instruction---A Womanist Perspective (1994)	269	(11)
Vanessa Sheared
A Womanist Experience of Caring: Understanding the Pedagogy of Exemplary Black Women Teachers (2002)	280	(17)
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
Social Work	297	(16)
Elizabeth Ross Haynes: An African American Reformer of Womanist Consciousness, 1908--1940 (1997)	297	(16)
Iris Carlton-LaNey
Nursing Science	313	(14)
Womanist Ways of Knowing: Theoretical Considerations for Research with African American Women (2000)	313	(14)
JoAnne Banks-Wallace
Sexuality Studies	327	(20)
Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn (2003)	327	(20)
Wenshu Lee
Architecture/Urban Studies	347	(14)
Critical Spatial Literacy: A Womanist Positionality and the Spatio-temporal Construction of Black Family Life (2004)	347	(14)
Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare
Part IV Critiquing the Womanist Idea
Harmony, Hegemony, or Healing?	361	(44)
The Language of Womanism: Rethinking Difference (1997)	361	(18)
Helen (charles)
Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context (2001)	379	(26)
Inderpal Grewal
Caren Kaplan
Part V Womanist Resources
Selections from the First Quarter Century	405	(10)
A Womanist Bibliography (Including Internet Resources)	405	(10)
Layli Phillips
Name Index	415	(6)
Subject Index	421