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This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett''s participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett''s life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen. nature of leadership for Black women,

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
      Publication Date: 02/01/1993
      ISBN13: 9781555406837, 978-1555406837
      ISBN10: 1555406831
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      Gender studies, gender groups

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      Book Synopsis
      This book offers an important contribution to the recovery and articulation of African-American womanist experience. Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an activist, social reformer, and churchwoman. Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope recovers her life and historical context and examines the extent to which her perspective can be a resource for a contemporary womanist Christian social ethic. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of Wells-Barnett, Emilie Townes examines the religious and social world in which she worked as well as her many speeches and publciations. Townes focuses especially on Wells-Barnett''s participation in the anti-lynching campaigns of the late nineteenth century. She argues that Wells-Barnett''s life and work can provide important lessons in leadership and social activism for contemporary Black churchwomen. nature of leadership for Black women,

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