Alice Walker’s Womanism: Perspectives Past and Present

• Authors: Aleksandra Izgarjan , Slobodanka Markov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article charts the development of womanism as a movement which has presented an alternative to feminism. It advocates inclusiveness instead of exclusiveness, whether it is related to race, class or gender. Womanism provided political framework for colored women and gave them tools in their struggle with patriarchy which imposed restrictive norms and negative stereotypes on them. It also tackled the restrictiveness of feminism which was especially evident in the field of literary scholarship. Womanism is also related to new movements within feminism such as womanist theology and eco-feminism

Keywords

EN

colored women; feminism; patriarchy; womanism

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 304-315

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Izgarjan

• University of Novi Sad Trg Dositeja Obradovića 5 21000 Novi Sad

author

Slobodanka Markov

• University of Novi Sad Trg Dositeja Obradovića 5 21000 Novi Sad

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0047-0