"Ain't I a Woman?" is a historic speech, generally considered to have been delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883). Truth was a former...

Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. hooks examines the effect...

Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman?", a variation of the original speech that was published in 1863 as being spoken in a stereotypical Black dialect...

Ain't is a negative inflection for am, is, are, has, and have in informal English. In some dialects, it is also used for do, does, did, and will. The development...

intersectionality in her 1851 "Ain't I a Woman" speech, where she spoke from her racialized position as a formerly enslaved woman to critique essentialist notions...

Writing in The New York Times in 2019, Min Jin Lee said that Ain't I a Woman "remains a radical and relevant work of political theory. She lays the groundwork...

American history. The speech, which did not have a title at the time, became known as the 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech. The Ohio Women's Convention at Akron...

included mostly original compositions. However, Mama's Blues, Ain't I a Woman and When a Woman Gets the Blues featured songs written by Tommy Johnson, Robert...

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? is a 1992 children's biography by Patricia and Frederick McKissack. It tells the story of African-American abolitionist...

advocate for the women's rights movement. In 1851 she delivered her "Ain't I a Woman" speech at the women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. Black women...