womanist
womanist adjective: relating to or in accordance with womanism.
Adjective
womanist (comparative more womanist, superlative most womanist)
- 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.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
Noun
womanist (plural womanists)
- 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...2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism
Forms of womanist
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more womanist |
| superlative | most womanist |
| Noun | |
| plural | womanists |
Origin of womanist
From woman + -ist. Late 20th c., after humanist.
Questions about womanist
- What does womanist mean?
- Womanist means relating to or in accordance with womanism.
- What part of speech is womanist?
- Womanist can be an adjective or a noun.
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