Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.
Contents:
Writing for our lives : womanism as an epistemological revolution -- When mama was God (poem) -- Structured academic amnesia : as if this true womanist story never happened -- From "force ripe" to "womanish/ist" : Black girlhood and African diasporan feminist consciousness -- Womanism encounters Islam : a Muslim scholar considers the efficacy of a method rooted in the academy and the church -- Standing in the shoes my mother made : the making of a Catholic womanist theologian -- Reflecting\Black (poem) -- Dancing limbo : Black passages through the boundaries of place, race, class, and religion -- Hospitality, haints, and healing : a Southern African American meaning of religion -- Lessons and treasures in our mothers' witness : why I write about Black women's activism -- "Mama why?-- " : a womanist epistemology of hope -- I've been mixed like cornbread (poem) -- Twenty years a womanist : an affirming challenge -- A womanist journey -- Quilting relations with creation : overcoming, going through, and not being stuck -- The sweet fire of honey : womanist visions of Osun as a methodology of emancipation -- Nevertheless, in stark contradiction (poem) -- Womanist humanism : a new hermaneutic -- A thinking margin : the womanist movement as critical cognitive praxis -- The womanist dancing mind : speaking to the expansiveness of womanist discourse -- They came because of the wailing (poem) -- Womanist visions, womanist spirit : an Asian feminist's response -- Lavender celebrates purple : a white feminist response -- Womanists and mujeristas, sisters in the struggle : a mujerista response -- Mining the motherlode : a Latina response -- What's the theological equivalent of a "mannish boy"? : learning a lesson from womanist scholarship--a humanist and Black theologian response -- Lies above suspicion : being human in Black folk tales--a Black liberation theologian response -- Is a womanist a Black feminist? : marking the distinctions and defying them : a Black feminist response.
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