Oxford University Press
Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope
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9781555406837
ISBN13:
9781555406837
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$91.94
Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope
$91.94
This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett's participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett's life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen. nature of leadership for Black women,
| Author: Emilie M. Townes |
| Publisher: Oxford University Press |
| Publication Date: Jan 02, 1993 |
| Number of Pages: 240 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1555406831 |
| ISBN-13: 9781555406837 |
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