Womanist and Black Feminist Contributions Since 1985 - Updated List

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Please see the following list of womanist and Black feminist contributions since 1985. This list has been updated but is not exhaustive. Please let us know of any authors and contributions you would like to see added. We would love to curate these resources for students and various scholars who benefit from this information.

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Womanist and Black Feminist Contributions Since 1985

Bell, Roseann P., Bettye J. Parker, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (eds.). Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press.

Bell-Scott, Patricia, et al. (eds.). 1991. Double Stitch: Black Women Writers About Mothers and Daughters. Boston: Beacon Press.

Brewer, Rose. 1989. "Black Women and Feminist Sociology: the Emerging Perspective." The American Sociologist 20: 57-70.

Brown, Elsa Barkley. 1989. "Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke." Signs 14: 610-633.

Cannon, Katie G. 1985. "The Emergence of a Black Feminist Consciousness." In Feminist Interpretations of the Bible, edited by Letty Russell, 30-40. Philadelphia: Westminster.

———. 1988. Black Womanist Ethics. Atlanta: Scholars Press.

———. 1995. Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. NY: Continuum.

Chay, Deborah. 1993. "Rereading Barbara Smith: Black Feminist Criticism and the Category of Experience." New Literary History 24: 635-652.

Christian, Barbara. 1980. Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

———. 1985. Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers. NY: Pergamon Press.

———. 1989. "But Who Do You Really Belong to – Black Studies or Women's Studies?" Women's Studies 17: 17-23.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 1986. "Learning from the Outsider Within: the Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought." Social Problems 33: 14-32.

———. 1989. "The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought." Signs 14: 745-73.

———. 1990. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Boston: Unwin Hyman.

Combahee River Collective Staff. 1986. The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing in the Seventies & Eighties. Brooklyn: Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press.

Davis, Angela Y. 1971. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance. NY: Third World Press.

———. 1974. Angela Davis — An Autobiography. NY: Random House.

———. 1981. Women, Race, and Class. NY: Random House.

———. 1989. Women, Culture, and Politics. NY: Random House.

Dickerson, Bette J. 1994. "Ethnic Identity and Feminism: Views from Leaders of African-American Women's Associations." In Color, Class, and Country: Experiences in Gender, edited by Gay Young and Bette J. Dickerson, 97-114. London: Zed Books.

——— (ed.). 1995. African-American Single Mothers: Understanding Their Lives and Their Families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dill, Bonnie Thornton. 1994. Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family Among Black Female Domestic Servants. NY: Garland.

DuCille, Ann. 1994. "The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies." Signs 19: 591-629.

———. 1996. Skin Trade. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Dube, Musa W. 2000. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press.

———. 2001. Other Ways of Reading: African Women and the Bible. Geneva: WCC Publications.

Dugger, Karen. 1995. "Changing the Subject: Race and Gender in Feminist Discourse." In Racism and Anti-Racism in World Perspective, edited by Benjamin P. Bowser, 138-153. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Forman, M. 1994. "Moving Closer to an Independent-Funk Black Feminist Theory, Standpoint, and Women in Rap." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 23: 35-55.

Gilkes, Cheryl Townsend. 1980. "Holding Back the Ocean with a Broom: Black Women and Community Work." In The Black Woman, edited by La Frances Rodgers-Rose, 217-32. Beverly Hills: Sage.

———. 1982. "Successful Rebellious Professionals: The Black Woman's Professional Identity and Community Commitment." Psychology of Women Quarterly 6: 289-311.

Golden, Marita. 1986. A Woman's Place. New York: Doubleday.

———. 1992. And Do Remember Me. New York: Doubleday.

Gordon, Vivian Verdell. 1987. Black Women, Feminism, and Black Liberation: Which Way?. Chicago: Third World Press.

Grant, Jacquelyn. 1989. White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response. Atlanta: Scholars Press.

Griffin, Jean Thomas. 1990. "Black Women's Experiences as Authority Figures in Groups." Women's Studies Quarterly 14: 7-12.

Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. 1990. Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishers.

hooks, bell. 1981. Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women & Feminism. Boston: South End Press.

———. 1989. Talking Back, Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press.

———. 1990. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. Boston: South End Press.

———. 1992. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press.

———. 1993. A Woman's Mourning Song. New York: Harlem River Press.

———. 1993. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery.

———. 1994. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. New York: Routledge.

———. 1994. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge.

———. 1995. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. NY: H. Holt and Co.

———. 1995. Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: New Press.

Hudson-Weems, Clenora, Daphne Ntiri, and Zulu Sofola. 1993. Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves. NY: Bedford.

Hull, Gloria, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (eds.). 1982. All the Women are White. All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist Press.

Hurtado, Aida. 1989. "Relating to Privilege: Seduction and Rejection in the Subordination of White Women and Women of Color." Signs 14: 833-855.

James, Stanlie (ed.). 1993. Theorizing Black Feminism: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women. NY: Routledge.

Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. 1996. Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism: Writings on Black Women. NY: Routledge.

Joseph, Gloria, and Jill Lewis. 1986. Common Differences: Conflicts in Black and White Feminist Perspectives. Boston: South End Press.

King, Deborah. 1988. "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of Black Feminist Ideology." Signs 14: 42-72.

Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A. 1997. Refiner’s Fire: A Religious Engagement with Violence. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

———. 2001. Exorcizing Evil: A Womanist Perspective on the Spirituals. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

Lorde, Audre. 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press.

———. 1988. A Burst of Light: Essays. NY: Firebrand Books.

Martin, Juanita, and Gordon C. Nagayam Hall. 1992. "Thinking Black, Thinking Internal, Thinking Feminist." Journal of Counseling Psychology 39: 509-514.

McDowell, Deborah. 1985. "New Directions in Black Feminist Criticism." Black American Literature Forum 14: 153-162.

Mitchell, Angelyn. 1995. The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Morgan, Jennifer. 1999. "Some Could Suckle Over Their Shoulder: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology." William and Mary Quarterly 54: 167-192.

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye. 1985. "Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English." Signs 11: 63-80.

———. 1996. Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Phillips, Layli. 2006. The Womanist Reader. NY: Routledge.

Ross, Rosetta E. 2003. Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Smith, Barbara. 1983. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. NY: Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press.

Turman, Eboni Marshall. 2013. Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Walker, Alice. 1982. The Color Purple. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

———. 1983. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Wallace, Michelle. 1990. Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. London: Verso.

Weems, Renita J. 1992. Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women’s Relationships in the Bible. San Diego: LuraMedia.

———. 1995. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

Williams, Delores S. 1993. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.