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Feminist Theory
From Margin to Center
bell hooks
Pages: 179Edition: Classics Series, Volume 5
ISBN: 0-89608-613-5
Format: paper
Release Date: 2000-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center established bell hooks as one of international feminism’s most challenging and influential voices.
Now, South End Press makes this invaluable work available in an attractive edition with a new preface by hooks, reflecting on the book’s impact and the development of her ideas since it was first published.
In this beautifully written and carefully argued work, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism’s reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the involvement, leadership, and centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women’s liberation.
Feminism’s goal of seeking credibility and acceptance on already existing ground—rather than demanding the lasting and more fundamental transformation of society—has shortchanged the movement, hooks argues.
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, Feminist Theory argues that contemporary feminists must acknowledge the full complexity and diversity of women’s experience to create a mass movement to end women’s oppression.
The new edition of Feminist Theory is volume 5 in the South End Press Classics series, edited by Manning Marable.
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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.
A list of bell hooks’s favorite films can be found here.
For a recent talk by bell hooks, visit Eric Stoller's blog, here.