Comprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Acknowledgments xv Introduction xix Womanism: On Its Own Layli Phillips Part I Birthplaces, Birthmothers: Womanist Origins Alice Walker's Womanism 3(18) Coming Apart (1979) 3(9) Alice Walker Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson (1981) 12(7) Alice Walker Womanist (1983) 19(2) Alice Walker Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi's African Womanism 21(16) Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English (1985) 21(16) Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi Clenora Hudson-Weems's Africana Womanism 37(20) Cultural and Agenda Conflicts in Academia: Critical Issues for Africana Women's Studies (1989) 37(7) Clenora Hudson-Weems Africana Womanism (1993) 44(13) Clenora Hudson-Weems Part II Womanist Kinfolk: Sisters, Brothers, Daughters, and Sons on Womanism Sisters and Brothers: Black Feminists on Womanism 57(28) What's in a Name? Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond (1996) 57(12) Patricia Hill Collins A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism (1998) 69(16) Michael Awkward Daughters and Sons: The Birth of Womanist Identity 85(32) Who's Schooling Who? Black Women and the Bringing of the Everyday into Academe, or Why We Started The Womanist (1995) 85(11) Layli Phillips Barbara McCaskill To Be Black, Male, and``Feminist'': Making Womanist Space for Black Men (1997) 96(21) Gary L. Lemons Part III Womanist Theory and Praxis: Womanism in the Disciplines Theology 117(42) Womanist Theology: Black Women's Voices (1986) 117(9) Delores S. Williams Roundtable Discussion: Christian Ethics and Theology in Womanist Perspective (1989) 126(33) Cheryl J. Sanders Katie G. Cannon Emilie M. Townes M. Shawn Copeland Bell Hooks Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Literature and Literary Criticism 159(14) Some Implications of Womanist Theory (1986) 159(6) Sherley Anne Williams A Womanist Production of Truths: The Use of Myths in Amy Tan (1995) 165(8) Wenying Xu History 173(20) Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke (1989) 173(20) Elsa Barkley Brown Theater and Film Studies 193(14) Dialogic Modes of Representing Africa(s): Womanist Film (1991) 193(14) Mark A. Reid Communication and Media Studies 207(26) A Womanist Looks at the Million Man March (1996) 207(6) Geneva Smitherman Assessing Womanist Thought: The Rhetoric of Susan L. Taylor (2000) 213(20) Janice D. Hamlet Psychology 233(14) Womanist Archetypal Psychology: A Model of Counseling for Black Women and Couples Based on Yoruba Mythology (2006/1995) 233(14) Kim Marie Vaz Anthropology 247(22) Portraits of Mujeres Desjuiciadas: Womanist Pedagogies of the Everyday, the Mundane and the Ordinary (2001) 247(22) Ruth Trinidad Galvan Education 269(28) Giving Voice: An Inclusive Model of Instruction---A Womanist Perspective (1994) 269(11) Vanessa Sheared A Womanist Experience of Caring: Understanding the Pedagogy of Exemplary Black Women Teachers (2002) 280(17) Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant Social Work 297(16) Elizabeth Ross Haynes: An African American Reformer of Womanist Consciousness, 1908--1940 (1997) 297(16) Iris Carlton-LaNey Nursing Science 313(14) Womanist Ways of Knowing: Theoretical Considerations for Research with African American Women (2000) 313(14) JoAnne Banks-Wallace Sexuality Studies 327(20) Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn (2003) 327(20) Wenshu Lee Architecture/Urban Studies 347(14) Critical Spatial Literacy: A Womanist Positionality and the Spatio-temporal Construction of Black Family Life (2004) 347(14) Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare Part IV Critiquing the Womanist Idea Harmony, Hegemony, or Healing? 361(44) The Language of Womanism: Rethinking Difference (1997) 361(18) Helen (charles) Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context (2001) 379(26) Inderpal Grewal Caren Kaplan Part V Womanist Resources Selections from the First Quarter Century 405(10) A Womanist Bibliography (Including Internet Resources) 405(10) Layli Phillips Name Index 415(6) Subject Index 421