Articles of category "Womanism"

Feminism is not womanism; the two are distinctly different and have different meanings. Feminism is the belief that someone has regarding the equality in full for women as well as of men. Females and men can be feminists. Equality is the key goal here, with more men doing the jobs us women have been doing for years and more women doing the jobs that men have been doing. People's meanings of feminism vary as do how they believe in it.

Womanism is a term given to the new feminism women, or those women who just take care of business. However mainly these women are black women who are fighting for empowerment all across the country. These womanism term was first adapted by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker. She used the term in her book In Search of Our Mother's Garden: Womanist Prose. Now this is the root of the term, but what else does it mean. Why is the term primarily used in the black community?