A collection of Alice Walker’s essays and criticism concerning writing by women, black art, and the Civil Rights movement. Walker’s non-fiction pieces cover sixteen years of her early career, starting in 1966 and ending in 1982 before she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Women’s Press distinctive dust jacket features this quote on the back “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”

London: The Women's Press, 1984. First UK edition, published in the USA in 1983. 397 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Hardback. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Very good book in very good dust jacket.