Layli Maparyan is a professor of Africana studies and executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. She is the author of The Womanist Idea and editor of The Womanist Reader.
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Foreword AnaLouise Keating Acknowledgments Introduction, Womanism Rising-Womanist Studies on Its Own Layli Maparyan Part I. We Must Recover Ourselves Before We Heal the World: Womanist Self-Care Who Cares About Black Women? Burnout, Self-Care, and Contemporary Black Women's Activism Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell From Disequilibrium, Disease, and Dying to Happiness, Healing, and Health Empowerment Melinda A. Mills Re-envisioning Health: Womanist Ways of Knowing Jameta Nicole Barlow Black Girls Matter: Theorizing Black Girlhood Studies Through Womanism LaShawnda Lindsay Part II. We Cannot Heal Ourselves Without Healing the Earth: Womanist Perspectives on Ecology, Spatiality, and Technology New Modes of Healing: Connecting Earth Justice and Social Justice in Ecowomanism Melanie L. Harris My Life in Your Hands: Womanist Reflections on Love, Space, and Pedagogy Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare Womanist Studies in China: From the 1980s to the Present Xiumei Pu Part III. Enlarging the Kitchen Table: Womanist Politics of Invitation (M)othering: Threshold Theorizing Sufi Womanist Praxis Sara Haq "What's That Young White Girl Doing Driving Around in Circles?": A Womanist Reckoning with Toxic White Femininity Susannah Bartlow A Reflection: Creating a World Where We Push Beyond Anti-Blackness, or, What Womanism Has Done for Me Tobias L. Spears On Identity, Language, and Power: A Dialogue on Black Gay Men and Womanism Charles Stephens and Steven G. Fullwood Part IV. A Threat to Sacredness Anywhere Is a Threat to Sacredness Everywhere: Womanist Challenges to Dehumanization Black Skins, Orange Shorts: A Womanist Perspective Rachel Cook Northway If We Bury the Ratchet, We Bury Black Women: A Womanist Analysis of Married to Medicine Heidi R. Lewis Loving Myself as a "Black Male Outsider": Breaking Silence about Becoming a Womanist Man" Gary L. Lemons The Womanist Work of Healing Black Men and Boys Yolo Akili Robinson Part V. Nurturing the Future We Wish to See: Womanism in Action, Past and Present A Silent and Dignified Army: The Womanist Praxis of the Order of Eastern Star, PHA, 1870-1929 Derrick Lanois Womanist Hip Hop Pedagogy and Collective Spaces for Black Girls Sherell A. McArthur Institutionalizing Africana Empowerment: Resources and Reflections from a Womanist Journey Stephanie Y. Evans Epilogue : Visions of LUXOCRACY Linda Costa Photography: Artist Statement Banho de Luz (Portrait of Amina Love) Brandy (Frida) Lillian Blades (hold the ember) Kim (Warrior Mama) Debra Elaine Johnson, MFA: Artist Statement The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene Vashti Said, No! Boost Symbiotic Funk Untitled Untitled Layli Maparyan About the Authors and Artists Credits Index
Womanism Rising provides a path for healing, transformation, and wellbeing. Identifying the politics of invitation, promoting love, equating creativity to healing, and engaging in the sacred-political act of affirming the other, Womanism Rising is for everyone! Layli Maparyan delivers a magnum opus in womanism. I highly recommend Womanism Rising--a powerful book!--Lillian Comas-Diaz, coeditor of Decolonial Psychology: Toward Anticolonial Theories, Research, Training, and Practice