Considering the power of the middle class to define "proper" gender norms during the era of slavery and just following Emancipation, does it make sense to regard the social construction of femininity at that time to depend on a strict hegemony of the two-gender system such that a woman like Sojourner Truth actually can be understood to challenge the reality of a two gender system and to transgress it?
A) Yes, due to taking intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality seriously we see that there are multiple "norms" when it comes to the social construction of femininity.
B) No, due to recognizing that black women are also women and therefore conform to the hegemony of the two-gender system.
C) No, because the two-gender system is only transgressed by transgender or queer gender or non-binary identities, not due to other differences among women.
D) Yes, because despite differences related to race or class, all women are defined by "essentialized" qualities and therefore the essentialized theory of gender is more accepted than the social constructionist theory of gender.