womanist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]womanist (comparative more womanist, superlative most womanist)
- Relating to or in accordance with womanism.
- 2000, Tuzyline Jita Allan, “The Color Purple: A Study of Walker's Womanist Gospel”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 120:
- For Walker, the battle against patriarchal society and its multiple sins of sexism, racism, classism and homophobia (among others) needs the womanist spirit of defiance and irreverence, on the one hand, and the desire for social integration, on the other.
Noun
[edit]womanist (plural womanists)
- One whose beliefs accord with womanism.
- 2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism[1]:
- This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.