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ALICE WALKER’S WOMANISM: PERSPECTIVES PAST AND PRESENT
ALICE WALKER’S WOMANISM: PERSPECTIVES PAST AND PRESENT

Author(s): Aleksandra Izgarjan, Slobodanka Markov
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara

Summary/Abstract: 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 ecofeminism.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 413-429
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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