Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate PoliticsWhat 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 |
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