Editing Alice Walker (section)

=== Womanism ===

Walker's specific brand of [[feminism]] included advocacy on behalf of women of color. In 1983, Walker coined the term ''[[Womanism|womanist]]'' in her collection ''[[In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens]]'', to mean "a Black feminist or feminist of color". The term was made to unite women of color and the feminist movement at "the intersection of race, class, and gender oppression".<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Deeper shades of purple : womanism in religion and society|date=2006|publisher=New York University Press|others=Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M., 1969–|isbn=978-0814727522|location=New York|oclc=64688636}}</ref> Walker states that "'Womanism' gives us a word of our own".<ref>Wilma Mankiller and others, "Womanism". ''The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History''. December 1, 1998. SIRS Issue Researcher. Indian Hills Library, Oakland, NJ. January 9, 2013,<!--<http://sirs.com>--> p. 1.</ref> because it is a discourse of Black women and the issues they confront in society. Womanism as a movement came into fruition in 1985 at the [[American Academy of Religion]] and the [[Society of Biblical Literature]] to address Black women's concerns from their own intellectual, physical, and spiritual perspectives."<ref name=":0" /> Today, her womanist ideology still persists within several movements including the [[Black Lives Matter]] Movement that was formed by Black women in response to overwhelming police brutality against Black males. The philosophy of womanism also served as the fundamental basis for the [[MeToo movement|#MeToo]] Movement in which women publicly expressed their experiences of sexual abuse and harassment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Henry |first=Carmel |title=A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States |url=https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/womanist#:~:text=The%20term%20'womanist'%20was%20coined,women,%20men,%20and%20families. |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=library.law.howard.edu |language=en}}</ref>