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Thinking from the Margins, Acting at the Intersections: Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Vivian M. May
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Abstract

Anna Julia Cooper's 1892 A Voice from the South is a hybrid text that speaks provocatively to contemporary feminist philosophy. Negotiating exclusionary categories of being and knowing and writing herself into intellectual traditions meant to exclude her, Cooper's narrative methods are politically tactical and epistemologi-cally significant. Cooper inserts subjectivity into objective analysis and underscores knowledge as located and embodied. By speaking from spaces of exclusion, Cooper fully articulates the promise of intersectional approaches to liberation.

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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Women in the American Philosophical Tradition 1800-1930 , Spring 2004 , pp. 74 - 91
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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