Ain"t I a Woman!

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Praise for the book: "Ain’t I a Woman is one of the most interesting, lucid books dealing with the subject of Feminism. The book can be recommended wholeheartedly to anyone who is interested in black history, in women’s history, or in that much-overlooked connection between the two." ―Maria K.

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If you're a woman who complains about feminists, please read this book and try to understand what women have had to go through so that you could be where you are today: free to complain. If only to have a copy of Sojourner Truth's immortal "Ain't I a Woman?" 5/5(9).

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The Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. The status quo is that women need to be protected, and she describes all the special treatment that she never receives.

Yeah; both of these are messed up. Women aren't fragile things that need to be treated like weird glass-blown angels Sojourner Truth proves this by being strong.

but she also proves that Black women are treated absolutely. A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood.

Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist by: This book is a classic. It should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously.

– Sojourner [Ain’t I a Woman]should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change. – Library Journal. One of the twenty most influential women’s books of the last twenty. Sojourner Truth, albumen silver print, circa from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

The meaning of "Ain't I a Woman" is literal: what you see is what you get. The speech gets a little more complex because of the seriously convoluted social activism at the time—can you keep all the –isms straight?—but Truth's speech is an upfront appeal, spoken without frills or confusing language.

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman. Ain't I A Woman. By Patricia C. McKissack, Fredrick McKissack. Grades. V. Genre. Non-Fiction. Ina slave named Isabella was born in New York.

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This one-page guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman. by Fredrick McKissack and Patricia McKissack. Ain’t I a Woman is structured as a critique of the dominant misconceptions, myths, and stereotypes regarding black women that white society has developed and fostered and that many black women.

Ain’t I a Woman () is a work of feminist scholarship that explores the complexities of living in the United States as a black woman.

Hooks examines the convergence of racism and sexism in major political and social movements throughout American history. Sojourner Truth: Aint I A Woman, by Patricia C. McKissack, is a biography about the amazing Sojourner Truth.

Born a slave, but later freed, sojourner truth is a remarkable woman who was the very first African-American woman to win a court case against a white man, and an avid speaker for women's rights, and the end of slavery/5.

The speech begins with Sojourner Truth politely asking permission to say a few words. She opens with the conclusion, “I am a woman’s rights,” and begins laying out her evidence.

She asserts that she is as strong as any man and is capable of doing the work of a man such as. A figurehead of intersectionality, she has authored numerous feminist classics and in the bell hooks institute was founded in her name.

Her books include Ain't I a Woman (Pluto, ), Feminist Theory (Pluto, ), Feminism is for Everybody (Pluto, ), Talking Back, (Routledge, ) and Breaking Bread (Routledge, ). She is. The speech she gave is called "Ain't I a Woman," and is called so because of the main rhetorical device Sojourner Truth used, conduplicatio, which is the repetition of a word or phrase.

is a platform for academics to share research papers. "Ain't I A Woman?" by Sojourner Truth Read by Carol Zsiga This reading is part of the Ocean County Library's National African American Read-In Podcast   Gloria Watkins was a year-old undergraduate at Stanford University when she wrote her first draft of “Ain’t I A Woman,” and she published the book when she was 29 years old, after she Author: Min Jin Lee.A groundbreaking work of feminst history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression.

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