The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought

by Layli Phillips Maparyan

Book Overview

Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041595410X
• ISBN13: 9780415954105
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"