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Feminism is For Everybody
Passionate Politics
bell hooks
Pages: 136ISBN: 0-89608-628-3
Format: paper
Release Date: 2000-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice.
hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from divisive barriers but rich with rigorous debate. In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future.
hooks speaks to all those in search of true liberation, asking readers to take look at feminism in a new light, to see that it touches all lives. Issuing an invitation to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism—far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite—is indeed for everybody.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Come Closer to Feminism
1 Feminist Politics: Where We Stand
2 Consciousness-Raising: A Constant Change of Heart
3 Sisterhood is Still Powerful
4 Feminist Education for Critical Consciousness
5 Our Bodies Ourselves: Reproductive Rights
6 Beauty Within and Without
7 Feminist Class Struggle
8 Global Feminism
9 Women at Work
10 Race and Gender
11 Ending Violence
12 Feminist Masculinity
13 Feminist Parenting
14 Liberating Marriage and Partnership
15 A Feminist Sexual Politic: An Ethics of Mutual Freedom
16 Total Bliss: Lesbianism and Feminism
17 To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism
18 Feminist Spirituality
19 Visionary Feminism
bell hooks
Click here to view bell hooks's full Author Pagebell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. Celebrated as one of our nation’s leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader’s “100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life,” she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world.
Her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981), which she began when she was 19, was named one of the “twenty most influential women’s books of the last twenty years” by Publishers Weekly in 1992. A prolific writer, hooks has published many other books with South End Press, including Feminist Theory, Black Looks, Yearning, Talking Back, and Breaking Bread (with Cornel West).
A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, her most recent books from South End Press include Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics and Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Updated Edition), and Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism with Amalia Mesa-Bains.
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