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What started it all- feminism
What started it all- feminism
Now if you didn't know, womanism isn't something that has always been around. The beginning stages of women's rights and more started with Feminism. Feminism is defined as the advocacy of women right's through the equality of the sexes. This seems to cover everything, right? Well, not exactly....
The first wave of feminism started in the late 19th century and was mostly focused on cisgender, upper-middle class, white women and the right to vote. It's not a bad place to start, however there were still elements in the battle for rights that were still lacking.
The second and third waves of feminism came around adding an additional point to is, however there was still something missing. Two elements- inclusion of people with different backgrounds and how their struggle may be different from the majority.
70's-80's womanism
70's-80's womanism
Women of color have been advocating for themselves in order to be seen as equal and respected by men along with people from different cultural backgrounds. The women who got the ball rolling on womanism were Alice Walker, Chikwenye Okkonjo Ogunyemi (a Nigerian writer), and Clenora Hudson-Weems (an African American Africana Studies scholar). In the 1970's-80's, Ogunyemi and Hudson-Weems have coined the terms "African womanism" and "African womanist". these women struggled to publish their works due to the patriarchal African literary context. FORTUNATELY, Ogunyemi and Hudson-Weems were able to overcome this and the share their term with the world (Harris 129).
Women of color have been advocating for themselves in order to be seen as equal and respected by men along with people from different cultural backgrounds. The women who got the ball rolling on womanism were Alice Walker, Chikwenye Okkonjo Ogunyemi (a Nigerian writer), and Clenora Hudson-Weems (an African American Africana Studies scholar). In the 1970's-80's, Ogunyemi and Hudson-Weems have coined the terms "African womanism" and "African womanist". these women struggled to publish their works due to the patriarchal African literary context. FORTUNATELY, Ogunyemi and Hudson-Weems were able to overcome this and the share their term with the world (Harris 129).
Womanism throughout the years
Womanism throughout the years
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