Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality

<p><em>Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality</em> 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. </p><p>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 <i>how</i> and <i>why</i> 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. </p><p>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. </p>