Abstract
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens is Alice Walker’s 1983 collection of essays and reminiscences, in which she focuses on her intellectual and personal journey as a feminist, writer and, as she puts it, womanist: Womanist, as she defines it, means many things: first, most definitely, ‘a black feminist or feminist of color’ … wanting to know more and in greater depth than is considered ‘good for one’. Second, ‘a woman who loves other women, sexually and/or non-sexually. Appreciates and prefers women’s culture, women’s emotional flexibility (values tears as the natural counterbalance to laughter), and women’s strength.’ A womanist also loves; ‘Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. the spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. the folk. Loves herself. ’(1983: xi–xii)
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