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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"womanism"”.
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I Am Because We Are: Africana Womanism as a Vehicle of Empowerment and Influence
The purpose of this research project has been to shed light on the experiences of Black women in Afrocentric groups' Nation of Gods and Earths, the Black Panther Party, and Rastafarians' that operated on the fringes of society during the 1960s through the early 2000s. This work articulates the …
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The Roots of Womanism as Identity, Empowerment, and Liberation for Black American Women: Raciolinguistic Genealogical Exploration
… activists, and scholars have grappled with womanism in relation to Black women’s presence in the world, particularly in the context of feminist and Black liberation movements. Since womanism was introduced more than four decades ago, both movements claimed Black women were a priority in …
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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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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… within art institutions. New approaches like womanism were proposed for curators to create art spaces where both WoC artists and communities of color feel welcomed. This dissertation provides an opportunity to consider how the field of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) can expand the ways in …
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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
<p>Witchy womanism is a critical methodology for reading, teaching, and writing about literature in order to generate emancipatory knowledge, activate Queer, Black, and Indigenous consciousnesses, contribute to 21<sup>st</sup> century women’s, Black, and Indigenous liberation movements, and foster …
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My soul looks back in wonder, how I got over: black women’s narratives on spirituality, sexuality, and informal learning
… Feminine Narrative Inquiry framework informed by womanism, Black feminism, and narrative structures used by Black women novelists, this qualitative study analyzed the vulnerable, empowered, and spirit-driven narratives (VES Narratives) collected from the participants to explore their experiences …
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The feminisation of poverty and victimhood in Dangarembga's print oeuvre: Cyclical evocations of nervous conditions, survival, and agency
… Weeps (1987). The researcher employed Africana Womanism, STIWANISM, and Nego-feminism literary theories to underpin this study, from examining the complex position that African women face in the light of detrimental effects of colonisation and its impact and legacy as it integrates with …
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Unwanted guests: Black women who contemplated and then voluntarily terminated their non-faculty employment at predominantly White institutions of higher education
… research were Critical Race Theory, Africana Womanism, and Historical Womanist. The WHO Healthy Workplace theoretical framework was also used to stimulate discussion as it pertains to the participants’ physical work environment, psychosocial work environment, personal health resources, and …
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Black woman, you are on your own : images of black women in Staffrider short stories, 1978-1982
… and gender and are informed by the theories of womanism and Black feminism(s). As much of the literature shows an overt bias in favour of the ideology of Black Consciousness, the first chapter serves an introductory function. It concentrates on an examination of the ideology of Black …
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Roucas e sufocadas : ecos de vozes femininas... narrativas negras em O sétimo juramento de Paulina Chiziane
… de teorias como interseccionalidade, africana womanism, mito e animismo, compreendendo assim fatores internos e externos a obra. Tais considerações são possíveis através de uma analise qualitativa dos elementos, inserindo uma perspectiva inovadora e outras pouco abordadas em O sétimo juramento. …
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Soul as a Gateway to Erotic Possibilities: An Afrocentric Study of Black Women’s Musical Narratives as Extensions of Agency and Freedom
… and social phenomena. Location theory, Womanism, and ADQT (Afrocentric Decolonizing Queer Theory) provide a framework for interrogating Afrocentric erotic politics historically and contemporarily through patterns of traditional practices of intimacy and cultural productions of sexuality. …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… world feminism or, to use Alice Walker's term, womanism--is articulated in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich. The gender identities of their characters arise concretely from the particularities of the communities in which those characters live. Amy Tan's focus …
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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
… social theory, particularly Alice Walker’s womanism, addresses significant gaps in mainstay ideas about identity formations, which is often told through a patriarchal lens. I was able to define resistance more broadly by recognizing Ladner as a womanist scholar-activist. Specifically, Ladner …
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An analysis of the way black African women function in cohabitative relationships as portrayed in ten selected African short stories
… in literature. It was informed by the black womanism, stiwanism and the feminism theories. The sample was purposively selected, because the researcher only looked at how black African female authors of short stories depict the experiences of black African women in cohabitative relationships. …
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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
… by some of the eighteen tenets of Africana womanism to navigate her changing environment in response to colonialism and evangelism. Ambrose, a colonial administrator, and Eugene, a Christian missionary are the two antagonists. The novel, Zwi is set in the late nineteenth century after the …
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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
… for use in this study by unifying motifs of womanism and Black Church Culture/Traditions are: collective ethos and action, empowering womanist religious rhetorics, and socio-spiritual status. In addition, narrowed for the purposes of this study, cultural competence refers to services and …
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Present day prophets: defining Black girlhood spirituality in saving our lives hear our truths (SOLHOT)
… at the intersection of Black feminism, Womanism, and Black Girlhood Studies, and theorizing from field experiences, this dissertation offers a definition of Black girlhood spirituality that demonstrates the necessity of studying spirituality as a site of inquiry into the knowledge …
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How to Get Away with Feminist Propaganda: An Afrocentric Analysis of Gender Ideology and Relationships in Black Female-Lead Television Dramas
… from Clenora Hudson-Weems’s theory of Africana Womanism, and functionalizing Valethia Watkins’ theory of compulsory feminism, this research interrogates the Eurocentric ideology perpetuated in Black female-lead television shows from an africological perspective. Research questions that will be …
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An exploration of the role of women in the household poverty alleviation in the Amatikulu area, Umlalazi Municipality,Kwa-Zulu Natal province
… and community. The study was underpinned by womanism theory, which argues that black women have been oppressed because of race and class. The study adopted qualitative research approach with non-probability sampling technique of a purposive sampling, 10 women participants were interviewed. …
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"She speaks with wisdom and faithful instruction...": the influence of a religio-spiritual epistemology on the academic knowledge, pedagogy, and theorizing of Black women university teachers
… a Christian denomination. Critical Race Theory, Womanism and Womanist Theology, the Theory of the Black Church, and Post-colonial Studies were employed in order to facilitate this inquiry. Every woman was reared in a predominantly Black congregation (PBC), and many still practice their faith in a …
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