Both "feminist" and "womanist" are terms that are greatly debated. Alice Walker popularized the term "womanist" in her 1983 collection of essays In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. Walker's four-part definition includes a definition of a "womanist" as "a black feminist or feminist of color." This course provides a survey of the history and development of feminist and womanist biblical interpretation in North America. It includes interpreters of the Hebrew Bible (sometimes called Old Testament or Tanakh) and New Testament