Sojourner Truth Women's Rights Convention Flashcards
In the 1970’s and 80’s, why were women debating the term “global sisterhood”?
Because it didn’t show the difference in power relations - how women of the west dominated the women of the developing countries.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
- An enslaved woman that changed her name when she became a travelling preacher (symbolizes her desire to leave her identity as a slave behind her)
- Campaigned for the abolishment of slavery and equal rights for women
- Challenges the mindset that a group of women is particularly this or that.
How does Sojourner show an intersectional analysis of what it meant to be a woman at that time?
o At the time of slavery, white women were oppressed by men (not allowed to work, were bound to the home, had to rely on men to do anything for them)
o But black women were oppressed by both the white men and the white women.
o In her speech, she uses religion to throw back in the faces of the white men, uses their faith against them – says that if god needed a woman to create the world and turn it upside down, then a whole bunch of women can work together to turn it right side up again.
