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Contents
Acknowledgments
Wisdom Rocked Steady
Introduction: Writing for Our Lives-Womanism as an Epistemological Revolution
Part I. Radical Subjectivity
Radical Subjectivity
When Mama Was God
1. Structured Academic Amnesia: As If This True Womanist Story Never Happened
2. From "Force-Ripe" to "Womanish/ist": Black Girlhood and African Diasporan Feminist Consciousness
3. Womanism Encounters Islam: A Muslim Scholar Considers the Efficacy of a Method Rooted in the Academy and the Church
4. Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: The Making of a Catholic Womanist Theologian
Part II. Traditional Communalism
Traditional Communalism
ReflectingBlack
5. Dancing Limbo: Black Passages through the Boundaries of Place, Race, Class, and Religion
6. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: A Southern African American Meaning of Religion
7. Lessons and Treasures in Our Mothers'Witness: Why I Write about Black Women's Activism
8. "Mama Why . . . ?"A Womanist Epistemology of Hope
Part III. Redemptive Self-Love
Redemptive Self-Love
I've Been Mixed Like Cornbread
9. Twenty Years a Womanist: An Affirming Challenge
10. A Womanist Journey
11. Quilting Relations with Creation: Overcoming, Going Through, and Not Being Stuck
12. The Sweet Fire of Honey:Womanist Visions of Osun as a Methodology of Emancipation
Part IV. Critical Engagement
Critical Engagement
Nevertheless, in Stark Contradiction
13. Womanist Humanism: A New Hermeneutic
14. A Thinking Margin: The Womanist Movement as Critical Cognitive Praxis
15. The Womanist Dancing Mind: Speaking to the Expansiveness of Womanist Discourse
Part V. Appropriation and Reciprocity
Appropriation and Reciprocity
they came because of the wailing
16. Womanist Visions,Womanist Spirit: An Asian Feminist's Response
17 Lavender Celebrates Purple: A White Feminist Response
18. Womanists and Mujeristas, Sisters in the Struggle: A Mujerista Response
19. Mining the Motherlode: A Latina Response
20. What's the Theological Equivalent of a "Mannish Boy"? Learning a Lesson from Womanist Scholarship- A Humanist and Black Theologian Response
21. Lies above Suspicion: Being Human in Black Folk Tales- A Black Liberation Theologian Response
22. Is a Womanist a Black Feminist? Marking the Distinctions and Defying Them: A Black Feminist Response
Selected Womanist Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Wisdom Rocked Steady
Introduction: Writing for Our Lives-Womanism as an Epistemological Revolution
Part I. Radical Subjectivity
Radical Subjectivity
When Mama Was God
1. Structured Academic Amnesia: As If This True Womanist Story Never Happened
2. From "Force-Ripe" to "Womanish/ist": Black Girlhood and African Diasporan Feminist Consciousness
3. Womanism Encounters Islam: A Muslim Scholar Considers the Efficacy of a Method Rooted in the Academy and the Church
4. Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: The Making of a Catholic Womanist Theologian
Part II. Traditional Communalism
Traditional Communalism
ReflectingBlack
5. Dancing Limbo: Black Passages through the Boundaries of Place, Race, Class, and Religion
6. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: A Southern African American Meaning of Religion
7. Lessons and Treasures in Our Mothers'Witness: Why I Write about Black Women's Activism
8. "Mama Why . . . ?"A Womanist Epistemology of Hope
Part III. Redemptive Self-Love
Redemptive Self-Love
I've Been Mixed Like Cornbread
9. Twenty Years a Womanist: An Affirming Challenge
10. A Womanist Journey
11. Quilting Relations with Creation: Overcoming, Going Through, and Not Being Stuck
12. The Sweet Fire of Honey:Womanist Visions of Osun as a Methodology of Emancipation
Part IV. Critical Engagement
Critical Engagement
Nevertheless, in Stark Contradiction
13. Womanist Humanism: A New Hermeneutic
14. A Thinking Margin: The Womanist Movement as Critical Cognitive Praxis
15. The Womanist Dancing Mind: Speaking to the Expansiveness of Womanist Discourse
Part V. Appropriation and Reciprocity
Appropriation and Reciprocity
they came because of the wailing
16. Womanist Visions,Womanist Spirit: An Asian Feminist's Response
17 Lavender Celebrates Purple: A White Feminist Response
18. Womanists and Mujeristas, Sisters in the Struggle: A Mujerista Response
19. Mining the Motherlode: A Latina Response
20. What's the Theological Equivalent of a "Mannish Boy"? Learning a Lesson from Womanist Scholarship- A Humanist and Black Theologian Response
21. Lies above Suspicion: Being Human in Black Folk Tales- A Black Liberation Theologian Response
22. Is a Womanist a Black Feminist? Marking the Distinctions and Defying Them: A Black Feminist Response
Selected Womanist Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index