Here’s what I’ve been reading in grad school/hoping to read more of :) Focused mostly on 1st-2nd generation of Womanist authors [Many books I would include are not yet on Pagebound]
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last updated January, 2026
Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths
Melanie L. Harris
Black, Quare, and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics
jennifer susanne leath
Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance
Courtney Bryant
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
Kelly Brown Douglas
A Troubling in My Soul (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black R)
Emilie M. Townes
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne
Wilda C. Gafney
Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope (AAR Academy Series)
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
Katie Geneva Cannon
Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (Library of Theological Ethics)
If It Wasn't for the Women. . .: Black Women's Experience And Womanist Culture In Church And Community
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response
Jacquelyn Grant
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
Delores S. Williams
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker
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