Womanist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Womanist is an adjective meaning Relating to or in accordance with womanism.
Meaning
Relating to or in accordance with womanism.
More Meanings
- One whose beliefs accord with womanism.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- womanists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include womanistic, feminist, feministic, womanish, feminine, womantic.
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