Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality: Travelling Truths in Feminist Scholarship

Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality: Travelling Truths in Feminist Scholarship
ISBN-10
0429424124
ISBN-13
9780429424120
Category
Social Science
Pages
156
Language
English
Published
2020-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Katrine Smiet

Description

"Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality investigates how the story of the 19th century abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth has come to be an iconic feminist story, and explores the continued relevance of this story for contemporary feminist debates in general, and intersectionality scholarship in particular. Tracing various academic reception histories of the story of Sojourner Truth and the famous 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech, the book gives insight into how this story has been taken up by feminist scholars in different times, places and political contexts. Exploring in particular how and why the story of Sojourner Truth has become a key reference for the theoretical and political framework of intersectionality, the book examines what the consequences of this connection are both for how intersectionality is understood today, and how the story of Sojourner Truth is approached. The book examines key intersecting dimensions within the story of Truth and its reception, including gender, race, class and religion. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in gender, women's and feminist studies. In particular, the book will be of interest to those wishing to learn more about intersectionality and Sojourner Truth"--

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