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Old-Age Justice and Black Feminist History

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ID4967031
AuthorsCorinne T Field
Year2021
Volume2021
Issue139
Pages37-51
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-8822590
OpenAlexW3125872640
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited43

This essay outlines Sojourner Truth's and Harriet Tubman's articulations of an intersectional black feminist agenda for old-age justice. The two most famous formerly enslaved women in the nineteenth-century United States, Truth and Tubman in their speeches, activism, and published Narratives revealed the mechanisms of domination through which enslavers and employers of domestic servants extracted productive and reproductive labor from black women, who in turn faced premature debility and immiseration at the end of life. Truth and Tubman linked what is now called necropolitics-"subjugation of life to the power of death," in Achille Mbembe's phrase-to the coercive organization of care work, what Evelyn Nakano Glenn refers to as being "forced to care." They point to the importance of gendered and racialized labor to the history of old age in America

Abortion · Black women · Debility · Economic Justice · Political science · Reproductive justice · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year1
Citation span2025 - 2025 (1)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1
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