bell hooks · Politics

What Feminism Is: A Movement to End Sexism

In <em>Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center</em> (1984) and <em>Feminism Is for Everybody</em> (2000), hooks defined feminism not as women becoming equal to men but as a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression - a definition that changes who the movement is for and where its truest view can be found.

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You learned that hooks defined feminism as &lsquo;a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression,&rsquo; rejected the &lsquo;equality with men&rsquo; definition (equal to which men?), and argued that the clearest view of sexism comes from the margin, not the center. Explain the definition and why its ex…

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