bell hooks · Politics
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.
You learned that hooks defined feminism as ‘a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression,’ rejected the ‘equality with men’ 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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