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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Womanist"”.
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Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction: Tensions and Reconciliations
A theory formulated by Alice Walker, womanism focuses on the unification of men and women with Nature and Earth. This thesis explores womanism with regards to its specific concerns with African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation, and points towards its more overarching …
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A Knock at Midnight: A Pedagogy of Womanist Spirituality
… African American theoretical traditions such as womanist theology (Canon, 1988; Grant, 1989, 1995; Weems, 1993, 1998/2005, 2004, 2005), black liberation theology (Cone, 1975/1997), beloved community (King, 1963), and the African concept of ubuntu (Battle, 2006, 2009; Tutu, 2004), and drawing on a …
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Reading Ruth : towards a postmodernist, literary and womanist analysis
… book of Ruth from a postmodemist, literary and womanist perspective. The main methodology is postmodemist literary criticism, but it employs intertextual and autobiographical approaches as well. Chapter 1 is an exploration of the plot of Ruth and reveals that in order for the end goal of the …
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Growing 'homeplace' In Critical Service-Learning: An Urban Womanist Pedagogy
… co-construct meaning, the study employs the womanist epistemological tenet of multivocality through connections to place, community, and activist praxis. Presenting Black female cultural expressions and life stories illustrated in the data, the study identifies holistic community-campus …
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Between memory and movement: A dancing-womanist-scholar in, not of, kinesiology
Because kinesiology is historically linked to physical education, two specific aspects of physical activity-exercise and sport-currently receive primary attention from kinesiologists (Charles, 1994). Consequently, kinesiology has not fully embraced dance, considered a non- exercise/non-sport based …
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“Imagining it differently, dreaming it passionately”: Examining women-of-colors science fiction as womanist spiritual activism
… science fiction can be regarded as womanist spiritual activism. Building upon the work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating, and Layli Maparyan, I define spiritual activism as an engaged spirituality directed towards the ending of all forms of oppression that highlights the …
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The Roots of Womanism as Identity, Empowerment, and Liberation for Black American Women: Raciolinguistic Genealogical Exploration
… For this reason, this dissertation examines womanist thought as a source of identity, empowerment, and liberation for Black American women. I employed two methods to investigate womanist thought that align with a qualitative inquiry: genealogy focus and raciolinguistic genealogy analysis. I …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
The forms of feminism that are articulated in the constructions of gender identity in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich arise from and vary with their constructions of community. In the U.S., the women's suffrage movement and the mainstream feminist …
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“I See Things Differently, and I'm Willing to Take the Risk”: The Makings of A Womanist Scholar-Activist, Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner
… more broadly by recognizing Ladner as a womanist scholar-activist. Specifically, Ladner transformed her direct action for social and political change into research, teaching and public engagement. She shows us that resistance is an embodied experience; therefore, refusal will manifest in …
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Viewing Zimbabwean literature through an Africana womanist lens: a critical reading of selected texts to investigate Charles Mungoshi’s treatment of African women in Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuwa and Waiting for the Rain
… to Mungoshi’s female characters. Africana womanist theory provides a framework which it argues mainstream feminism fails to address the deep meaning of African culture (Hudson-Weems, 1997). In particular, the critical component focuses on Mungoshi’s two novels and the extent to which his …
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Woman is a Parable
… the Parable of the "Ten Maidens" from an African Womanist Perspective consonant with an Epideictic Rhetoric approach. Through this perspective the social position of women in parables based on an androcentric world is explored. However, this position is challenged by a womanist perspective. …
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Reconstructing Resilience: Including African -American Female Students in Educational Resiliency Research
… of African American female students, called post-womanist research. Post-womanist research methods combine the tenets of postmodernism and Black feminism, for the study of resilience in urban education settings. The findings of the study indicate that the most educationally resilient students were …
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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… surveys. The researcher also reflects on her own womanist approaches to curating WoC artists that are informed by her artist-curator-Women’s Studies scholar identities and compares her womanist approaches to the work of nine curators in Texas, who reflect on their curatorial practice through …
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Shifting the Atmosphere : An Examination of the Relationships among African-American Female Discourse(s), Culturally Competent Education, and Social Action through the Black Church against Domestic Violence
… existing knowledge about the relationships among womanist discourse(s) and cultural competence used in effective educational practices. In this dissertation, the term womanist discourse(s) means language that reflects the diverse cultural identities and experiences of Black women while also …
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If It Wasn’t for the Women: An Exploration of Works by Renita Weems, Wil Gafney, & Kelly Brown Douglas
<p>Womanist Bible scholars Renita Weems, Kelly Brown Douglas, and Wil Gafney’s offerings to the world of biblical scholarship have had a profound impact on Christian faith in the United States. Womanist biblical scholarship is the hermeneutics, ethics, critique, theology, and more, done with a …
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‘The Power of Three Will Set Us Free': Witchy Womanist Readings of Toni Morrison’s Sula, Opal Palmer Adisa’s It Begins With Tears, and Migdalia Cruz’s The Have-Little and Miriam’s Flowers
… “‘The Power of Three Will Set Us Free’: Witchy Womanist Readings of Toni Morrison's <em>Sula</em>, Opal Palmer Adisa's <em>It Begins With Tears</em>, and Migdalia Cruz's <em>The Have-Little </em>and <em>Miriam's Flowers</em>" is a multidisciplinary analysis of AfroIndigenous diasporic women's …
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Loud silence: black women in the academy life histories and narratives
… at predominantly white institutions. Using Womanist theory as a theoretical framework this project pays particular attention to the ways in which the participants story their lives and make sense of their multiple identities inside and outside the academy. In addition, the project uses their …
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LOVING BLACKNESS: BLACK WOMEN DIGITAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE HEALING POWERS OF THE CONTEMPORARY NATURAL HAIR MOVEMENT.
… inspire Black women with natural hair. Using a womanist lens, I examine five YouTube videos, as rhetorical artifacts, that demonstrate the communicative process of testifying. I argue that the combination of the homespace and testifying produces a transformative healing power that has mobilized …
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The legacy of African American teachers in Jim Crow Mississippi
… responses were analyzed through the lenses of womanist pedagogy, educational capital, and the ideals of prominent early 20th century African American education scholars. In many ways, the archetypes for African American set by famous intellectuals were rarely met within the schools represented …
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Adult women with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives on the menarche/menstruation experience
… empowering all women utilizing a holistic womanist approach. Research on menstruation and autism should replicate this study and devise a female/assigned-female-at-birth-only AQ-10 version.
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