Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality: Traveling Truths in Feminist Scholarship (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality) - Hardcover

Smiet, Katrine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113838917X ISBN 13: 9781138389175

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Katrine Smiet is Assistant Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her research interests include feminist philosophy, historiography of feminist ideas, and intersectionality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113838917X
• ISBN 13: 9781138389175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164