Layli Maparyan, Analouise Keating, Osizwe R.j. Harwell, Melinda A. Mills, Jameta N. Barlow

Womanism Rising

Herausgeber: Maparyan, Layli

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Womanism Rising concludes Maparyanâ s three-book exploration of womanist studies. The collection showcases new work around five key ideas by emerging womanist authors who expand the womanist idea while extending womanism to new sites, new problems, and new audiences.

Produktdetails

• Transformations: Womanist Studies
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780252088315
• ISBN-10: 025208831X
• Artikelnr.: 70701754

Autorenporträt

Layli Maparyan is a professor of Africana studies and executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. She is the author of The Womanist Idea and editor of The Womanist Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword AnaLouise Keating
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Womanism Rising—Womanist Studies on Its Own Layli Maparyan
Part I. We Must Recover Ourselves Before We Heal the World: Womanist
Self-Care
1. Who Cares About Black Women? Burnout, Self-Care, and Contemporary
Black Women’s Activism Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell
2. From Disequilibrium, Disease, and Dying to Happiness, Healing, and
Health Empowerment Melinda A. Mills
3. Re-envisioning Health: Womanist Ways of Knowing Jameta Nicole Barlow
4. Black Girls Matter: Theorizing Black Girlhood Studies Through
Womanism LaShawnda Lindsay
Part II. We Cannot Heal Ourselves Without Healing the Earth: Womanist
Perspectives on Ecology, Spatiality, and Technology
1. New Modes of Healing: Connecting Earth Justice and Social Justice in
Ecowomanism Melanie L. Harris
2. My Life in Your Hands: Womanist Reflections on Love, Space, and
Pedagogy Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare
3. Womanist Studies in China: From the 1980s to the Present Xiumei Pu
Part III. Enlarging the Kitchen Table: Womanist Politics of Invitation
1. (M)othering: Threshold Theorizing Sufi Womanist Praxis Sara Haq
2. “What’s That Young White Girl Doing Driving Around in Circles?”: A
Womanist Reckoning with Toxic White Femininity Susannah Bartlow
3. A Reflection: Creating a World Where We Push Beyond Anti-Blackness,
or, What Womanism Has Done for Me Tobias L. Spears
4. On Identity, Language, and Power: A Dialogue on Black Gay Men and
Womanism Charles Stephens and Steven G. Fullwood
Part IV. A Threat to Sacredness Anywhere Is a Threat to Sacredness
Everywhere: Womanist Challenges to Dehumanization
1. Black Skins, Orange Shorts: A Womanist Perspective Rachel Cook
Northway
2. If We Bury the Ratchet, We Bury Black Women: A Womanist Analysis of
Married to Medicine Heidi R. Lewis
3. Loving Myself as a “Black Male Outsider”: Breaking Silence about
Becoming a Womanist Man” Gary L. Lemons
4. The Womanist Work of Healing Black Men and Boys Yolo Akili Robinson
Part V. Nurturing the Future We Wish to See: Womanism in Action, Past and
Present
1. A Silent and Dignified Army: The Womanist Praxis of the Order of
Eastern Star, PHA, 1870–1929 Derrick Lanois
2. Womanist Hip Hop Pedagogy and Collective Spaces for Black Girls
Sherell A. McArthur
3. Institutionalizing Africana Empowerment: Resources and Reflections
from a Womanist Journey Stephanie Y. Evans
Epilogue : Visions of LUXOCRACY
Linda Costa Photography: Artist Statement
    Banho de Luz (Portrait of Amina Love)
    Brandy (Frida)
    Lillian Blades (hold the ember)
    Kim (Warrior Mama)
Debra Elaine Johnson, MFA: Artist Statement
    The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene
    Vashti Said, No!
    Boost 
    Symbiotic Funk
    Untitled
Untitled Layli Maparyan
About the Authors and Artists
Credits
Index