Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope

This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett's participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett's life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen. nature of leadership for Black women,


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Townes, Emilie M.
Published: 01/02/1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9781555406837
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.46h x 6.44w x 0.57d