Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

by bell hooks

Overview

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to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism—far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite—is indeed for everybody.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745317335
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	12/20/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Intro: Come Closer to Feminism
Ch. 1: Feminist Politics: Where We Stand
Ch. 2: Consciousness-raising: A Constant Change of Heart
Ch. 3: Sisterhood is Still Powerful
Ch. 4: Feminist Education for Critical Consciousness
Ch. 5: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Reproductive Rights
Ch. 6: Beauty Within and Without
Ch. 7: Feminist Class Struggle
Ch. 8: Global Feminism
Ch. 9: Women at Work
Ch. 10: Race and Gender
Ch. 11: Ending Violence
Ch. 12: Feminist Masculinity
Ch. 13: Feminist Parenting
Ch. 14: Liberating Marriage and Partnership
Ch. 15: A Feminist Sexual Politic: An Ethics of Mutual Freedom
Ch. 16: Total Bliss: Lesbianism and Feminism
Ch. 17: To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism
Ch. 18: Feminist Spirituality
Ch. 19: Visionary Feminism
Background Reading
Index

What People are Saying About This

Maya Angelou

Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, she has so much to give us.

Editorial Reviews

...a universally modern feminist guide for the progressive generation....This book is essential reading for young girls who want to learn how to empower themselves, for their mothers and grandmothers who lived through the women's rights movements of the '60s and '70s—and for men of all ages.

Bust Magazine

Bell Hooks (Distinguished Professor of English at City College, City University of New York) once against demonstrates her exceptional ability as a cultural critic in Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics. Hooks writes with her usual and persuasive candor on a wide ranging spectrum of personal, national, and international contemporary issues arising from feminist politics and the continuing struggle to create an equalitarian, unbiased future against the cultural barriers raised by patriarchal, racist, and homophobic attitudes, policies, and practices. Feminism Is For Everybody is still another important, thought-provoking, and appreciated contribution by Bell Hooks to feminist studies.

Praise for Feminism Is for Everybody:

"bell hooks has always written in a very readable style, eschewing footnotes because people in her hometown told her they were put off by books with footnotes. This time, she set out to write a book that explains feminism, particularly for a mainstream audience….certainly she has once again made the point that feminists need to try to reach women of all races and classes." —Carol Anne Douglas, Off Our Backs (2001)

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