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- What’s more, Truth’s question—“ain’t I a woman?”—reveals the racism in the burgeoning American feminist movement. Men never help Truth (or even acknowledge her) because she’s Black. She implies that her Blackness erases her womanhood in the eyes of these hypocritical and paternalistic men.
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This is the version of ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ which we reproduce below, offering a summary of Sojourner Truth’s words and an analysis of their meaning. A brief word on the context of the speech: the women in attendance at the Women’s Convention in 1851 were being challenged to call for the right to vote.
Analysis. Addressing her audience at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, as “children,” Black abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth begins her speech. “When there is so much racket,” she says, “there must be something out of kilter.”
Ain't I a Woman? (Speech) study guide contains a biography of Sojourner Truth, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes.
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” is one of many famous feminist addresses throughout United States history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Address on Woman’s Rights,” which was delivered in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, is a long speech arguing that women are intellectually, morally, and even physically equal ...
- Ann Phoenix
- Abstract
- Raising new and pressing questions
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In the context of the second Gulf war and US and the British occupation of Iraq, many ‘old’ debates about the category ‘woman’ have assumed a new critical urgency. This paper revisits debates on intersectionality in order to show that they can shed new light on how we might approach some current issues. It first discusses the 19th century contesta...
In 2003, the second war against Iraq has brought into relief many continuing feminist concerns such as the growing militarization of the world, the critical role of the military industrial complex as a technology of imperial governance, the feminisation of global labour markets and migration flows, the reconstitution of differentially racialised fo...
- Avtar Brah, Ann Phoenix
- 2004
Ain’t I a Woman? In her brief but powerful speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” delivered at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention of 1851, Black abolitionist and feminist activist Sojourner Truth urgently describes the need for equal rights for women in the United States.
The chapter is structured as follows. In Section (I) I examine the role of recognition in consciousnessness-raising and radical feminism. It will be shown how a particular understanding of the gendered self is assumed by such feminists, which leads to problematic claims for recognition.
