womanist
Etymology
From woman + -ist.
womanist means relating to or in accordance with womanism. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
Why “womanist” is a great word
WOMANIST — [Adjective] Relating to or in accordance with womanism, a social theory and movement centering the lived experiences and perspectives of Black women and women of color. From woman + -ist (agent noun suffix). The term was notably defined and popularized in the 1980s by author Alice Walker. Unlike "feminist" (which seeks the liberation of women broadly) or "black feminist" (which provides a crucial political analysis of race and gender), "womanist" explicitly embraces a spiritual, culturally holistic, and communally oriented framework. It is the wisdom drawn from a grandmother's kitchen-table stories, the resilient rhythm of a blues song that holds both sorrow and love, and the liberation theology hummed in a gospel hymn—a quiet insistence that survival itself is a form of scholarship woven into the very fabric of living.
adj
- Relating to or in accordance with womanism.“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
- One whose beliefs accord with womanism.“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.”