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to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism-far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite–is indeed for everybody.īell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. 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. 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. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from divisive barriers but rich with rigorous debate. Hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. bell hooks explains how the current feminist movement lacks a strong sense of sisterhood, and one reason for that is our lack of participation in consciousness raising groups. Most young feminists of today dont know the history of feminism that bell hooks recounts in this book. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. Feminism is for Everybody is a great book for third wave generation feminists. In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving….There can be no love without justice.-from the chapter “To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism”
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