1.4. Womanism
Womanism is a term coined by Alice Walker in her essay In Search for Our Mothers’ Gardens (1983). In her publication, the scholar defines womanism in four ways: first the term defines “a black feminist or feminist of color”, second it describes “a woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually” and third, as Walker states, womanism refers to a woman who “loves herself” and accepts herself fully (in Mazurek, 2009: 9). In her fourth definition, Walker states that the relation between the two definitions of womanism and feminism is almost the same “as purple to lavender” (in Mazurek, 2009: 9). The scholar emphasizes that during the time of slavery women were deprived of their own voices and were “unaware of the richness
Womanism is a term coined by Alice Walker in her essay In Search for Our Mothers’ Gardens (1983). In her publication, the scholar defines womanism in four ways: first the term defines “a black feminist or feminist of color”, second it describes “a woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually” and third, as Walker states, womanism refers to a woman who “loves herself” and accepts herself fully (in Mazurek, 2009: 9). In her fourth definition, Walker states that the relation between the two definitions of womanism and feminism is almost the same “as purple to lavender” (in Mazurek, 2009: 9). The scholar emphasizes that during the time of slavery women were deprived of their own voices and were “unaware of the richness