THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALICE WALKER’S WOMANISM AND ITS MAIN PERSPECTIVES PAST AND PRESENT
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colored women, feminism, patriarchy, womanism, past and present perspectives of womanism.##article.abstract##
This paper is based on the development of womanism as a movement which has shown an alternative to feminism. It advocates inclusiveness instead of exclusiveness, whether it is related to race, class or gender. Womanism is concerned with political framework for colored women and gave them tools in their struggle with patriarchy which imposed restrictive norms and negative stereotypes on them. It also solved the restrictiveness of feminism which was especially evident in the field of literary scholarship. Womanism is also related to new movements within feminism such as womanist theology and eco-feminism.
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