1st Edition

Sojourner Truth and Intersectionality Traveling Truths in Feminist Scholarship

By Katrine Smiet Copyright 2021
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Travels with Truth

1. Beyond the Historical Truth? Feminist Knowledges as Traveling Truths

2. Intersectionality as Traveling Theory: European Intersectionality Debates

3. Ain’t I a Woman? Feminist Theory and the Unstable Subject of ‘Woman’

4. Post/Secular Truths: Sojourner Truth at the Intersections of Gender, Race and Religion

5. Post/Socialist Truths: Thinking Through Sojourner Truth and Alexandra Kollontai

Conclusion: A Personal and Academic Travelogue

Biography

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.