[Ads-l] Antedating of "Womanism" and "Womanist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

womanism (OED, 2.b., 1984)

1983 _Boston Globe_ 23 Oct. A9 (ProQuest)  Blackness is only almost all, and – her [Alice Walker's] word - womanism is the rest of it.


womanist (OED, = black feminist, 1984)

1980 _Oakland Tribune_ 18 May E1 (Newspapers.com)  Walker calls herself a womanist rather than a black feminist, a new word she feels more accurately represents her feelings.


Fred Shapiro


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