Of "Sound" and "Unsound" Body and Mind: Reconfiguring the Heroic Portrait of Harriet Tubman.

The article focuses on reexamination of the historic leader Harriet Tubman, whose iconic status has tended to slough off images of her disability. It mentions historical subject who possessed specific disabilities developed from her life as a black woman and a slave and reconstruction of Tubman's su...

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Published in:Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 193 - 219
Main Author: Hobson, Janell
Format: Article
Published: University of Nebraska Press 2019
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