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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- Introducing Womanist Theology by Stephanie Y. Mitchem on page 74, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Can I Get a Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women : An Anthology by Marcia Y. Riggs on page 67, page 150, and Back Matter
- Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies) by Marla F. Frederick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing by Rosemary Skinner Keller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Stained-Glass Ceiling: Churches and Their Women Pastors by Sally B. Purvis on page 19, and Back Matter
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