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Book

Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics

Call Number

  • 305.42 H784.1 (OSH, POW)

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Edition

[Second edition].

Publication Information

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Physical Description

xiv, 123 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

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to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism--far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite--is indeed for everybody.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • 1. Feminist politics : where we stand
  • 2. Consciousness-raising : a constant change of heart
  • 3. Sisterhood is still powerful
  • 4. Feminist education for critical consciousness
  • 5. Our bodies, ourselves : reproductive rights
  • 6. Beauty within and without
  • 7. Feminist class struggle
  • 8. Global feminism
  • 9. Women at work
  • 10. Race and gender
  • 11. Ending violence
  • 12. Feminist masculinity
  • 13. Feminist parenting
  • 14. Liberating marriage and partnership
  • 15. A feminist sexual politic : an ethics of mutual freedom
  • 16. Total bliss : lesbianism and feminism
  • 17. To love again : the heart of feminism
  • 18. Feminist spirituality
  • 19. Visionary feminism.

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