Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

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Routledge, Oct 10, 2014 - Social Science - 138 pages

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

 

Contents

consciousnessraising a constant change of heart
7
sisterhood is still powerful
13
feminist education for critical consciousness
19
our bodies ourselves reproductive rights
25
beauty within and without
31
feminist class struggle
37
global feminism
44
women at work
48
feminist masculinity
67
feminist parenting
72
liberating marriage and partnership
78
a feminist sexual politic an ethics of mutual freedom
85
total bliss lesbianism and feminism
93
to love again the heart of feminism
100
feminist spirituality
105
visionary feminism
110

race and gender
55
ending violence
61

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A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks is best known for classic books including Ain’t I a Woman, Bone Black, All About Love, Rock My Soul, Belonging, We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real. hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky.

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