Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Womanist 1. From Womanish (Opp. of "girlish," i.e., frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color... 2 Also: A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women's culture, women's emotional flexibility (values tears as natural counterbalance of laughter), and women's strength. Some-times loves individual men, sexually and/or nonsexually...
...Walkers collection takes up the civil rights movement and its after-math, her own search for and admiration of other Black female writers, the bonds between mothers and daughters, and a myriad of social schisms that plague society. She discusses the dynamics among Black and white women within the feminist movement, and those among heterosexual women and lesbians. Presenting her opinion of the common ground between Blacks and Jews, and the tendency toward anti-Semitism among Blacks, she describes why she has evolved from unilateral Zionism' to a position of sympathy for both Jews and Palestinians...
Writing with an immediacy and vivacity on even such well-documented topics as the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the lives of Jane Austen and the Brontes, Walker mixes in with these subjects highly personal accounts of her own struggles as a feminist and an artist, in the end earning the right to call herself more than a feminist...
...Washington, feminist and civil liberties groups criticized the court's verdict as a step backwards for women's rights...
Would women have integrated the coal mines and the construction sites if they were interested only in equal pay? The feminist goal is a balanced work force, not a "separate but equal...