Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics
by bell hooksAVAILABILITY: Usually ships within 2-5 days
Publication Date: 2000
Publisher: South End Press
Binding: Paperback
Topics: Democracy: Theory & Practice, Education, Family / Parenting, Gay & Lesbian, Human Health & Welfare, Labor & Work / Classism, Love, Sex, Eros, Race & Civil Rights, Sexism / Patriarchy, Social Movements, Spirituality & Religion, Visioning the Future
Description: 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to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism - far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite - is indeed for everybody.
bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, she is Distinguished Professor of English at City College, City University of New York.
Review(s): "Passionately argues that our ability to deal with the interrelation of gender, race, and class must be addressed in order to move toward true feminism. hooks succeeds in taking feminist theory from the academy and giving it back to the communities from which it sprang - redefining it in lucid, accessible, everyday terms. A radical act, indeed." - Ms. Magazine