Word: womanist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Picking" means roaming the aisles of the Seattle distribution center, filling customer orders from shelves packed with titles arranged according to a bewildering strategy called "random stow" that leaves Toni Morrison: A Womanist Discourse abutting Garfield's Extreme Student Planner. This facility is the smallest of Amazon's nine worldwide distribution centers. But today the place is humming with hundreds of pickers pushing around carts piled high with books and other products destined to land under thousands of Christmas trees...
Walker, whose best known works include The Color Purple and In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple...
More and more, however, in rock -- and also in rap and R. and B. -- men and women are forming bands in which the latter not only sing but play instruments and write songs too. Some tough all-female bands have formed that give a womanist twist to the raucous sound usually associated with all-buddy bands, but the more remarkable and successful phenomenon has been bands with men and women playing together. Very fine albums by the Cranberries and Smashing Pumpkins have sold more than a million copies each. Coed bands are also on the cutting edge...
...manipulated and you can lose your voice," said Sujatha Bahga '93, a member of the panel. She said that she has often felt like the "token womanist" in groups or events...