GNDS 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bell Hooks

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 311
• Professor: Jane Tolmie

Document Summary

Sojourner, someone who goes on lots of voyages or travels, this is a (cid:498)soft-name(cid:499) Analyzing the story of a slave named isabelle, or belle. Abolitionism seeks to abolish slavery, she was an abolitionist. Belle was a very good speaker, delivered an amazing set of speeches as a black woman in this time period. She was a radical woman for this time period, she was the first black woman to win a court case against a white man to win custody of her child back. She gave herself the name isabelle sojourner, she is one of the most important women in the first wave, she is one of the most important black women of all time. We are reading three different versions of her most important speech, (cid:498)ain"t i a woman(cid:499) bell hooks wrote her book after the title of this speech. She did not speak english as a girl, she only spoke dutch.