APRIL 2019 - AudioFile
Narrator Adenrele Ojo is a familiar, poetic voice for a heavy topic: Black women’s unique experiences with racism and sexism, and their role in standing with Black men and white women in the fight against these oppressions. This classic book doesn’t feel dated, though the buzzword “intersectionality” is never uttered. The audiobook is a primer on the study of Black women in America, and Ojo narrates sensitively, though with gravity, concepts and arguments that may be hard for some listeners to swallow. Haven’t the problems between Black women and white women, Black women and Black men been resolved yet? The difference between the time that bell hooks wrote and now is the reception to her thesis and the space for varied, nuanced arguments. M.P.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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Praise for the book:
"Ain’t I a Woman is one of the most interesting, lucid books dealing with the subject of Feminism. The book can be recommended wholeheartedly to anyone who is interested in black history, in women’s history, or in that much-overlooked connection between the two." —Maria K. Mootry Ikerionwu, Phylon (1983)
"…an absorbing delineation of the American black woman’s mark(s) of oppression at the hands of racist, misogynist, imperialist, capitalist patriarchy….Feminists must read this book…" —Cheryl Clarke, Off Our Backs (1982)
"Since the publication of Ain’t I A Woman in 1981, bell hooks has become one of the United States’ most acute cultural critics. Writing from a clearly stated position as an African American woman, hooks’s early work helped re-map feminist theory in the United States with her consistent analysis of the interrelationships of race, gender and class in contemporary cultural life." —Sally Keenan, Journal of American Studies (1995)
APRIL 2019 - AudioFile
Narrator Adenrele Ojo is a familiar, poetic voice for a heavy topic: Black women’s unique experiences with racism and sexism, and their role in standing with Black men and white women in the fight against these oppressions. This classic book doesn’t feel dated, though the buzzword “intersectionality” is never uttered. The audiobook is a primer on the study of Black women in America, and Ojo narrates sensitively, though with gravity, concepts and arguments that may be hard for some listeners to swallow. Haven’t the problems between Black women and white women, Black women and Black men been resolved yet? The difference between the time that bell hooks wrote and now is the reception to her thesis and the space for varied, nuanced arguments. M.P.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
