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If It Wasn’t for the Women

CTL-E-3495 · Work · book · 2001

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Cheryl Townsend Gilkes’s 2001 book on Black women’s experience and womanist culture in church and community.

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Created by CultureTechLens batch RELP79 (2026-10-06); research-complete via claims on focal entities.

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