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Summary: Interested in feminism?
Review: A well-rounded starter for anyone interested in true, historical feminism. I say "true" because it seems there are more and more pop culture books with a "feminist" or "grrrl" theme to them. I hope that all young woman (or all women) will come across this book for the real story.
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Summary: Feminism Is For Everybody except.........
Review: As a life long feminist, I have always espoused that feminism is about inclusion. This book opposes that belief. The title would lead one to beleive that Ms. Hooks feels the movement of feminism should include people from all walks of life.That is not what you will discover. She refers to our feminist pioneers as "priveledged, educated white woman", and feels fit to use the term "housewives" throughout her book to describe woman(mothers) who do not work outside of the home.I haven't heard anyone use that term seriously for a couple of decades. Apparently these two categories of women are not fit to wear the "feminist" label. The background she provides for the early days of the feminist movement is educational for someone new to the movement. But, when all is said and done, she is a fringe feminist and one needs to understand that before reading this book. I found it somewhat difficult getting through this book with the numerous editorial errors!
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Summary: Important, thought-provoking, and appreciated
Review: 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.
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Summary: A Must Read for Everybody
Review: bell hooks has provided an insightful, intellectual look at feminism that is approachable and accessible. hooks gives us hope of living in a world where we all can be free --- free of bigotry, racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
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Summary: A Must Read for Everybody
Review: bell hooks has provided an insightful, intellectual look at feminism that is approachable and accessible. hooks gives us hope of living in a world where we all can be free --- free of bigotry, racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
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Summary: Clarity on the Feminist Movement and where it can go next
Review: Bell Hooks is an articulate and inspired writer. This book is a great primer to give to friends and family to inform them about the feminist movement...since many people hear only what the mainstream media has to say...this book takes into account the perspectives of black and white women/men. A free-thinker leverages the brilliance of others to enable him/her in developing and testing his/her own ideas...this is one author which will certainly help you in testing and developing your own ideas on feminism and patriarchy. It is concise, easy reading. It also clearly reflects many of the same historical points which I recently saw on the PBS special "Not For Ourselves Alone"...a program about the early suffrage movement pioneers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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Summary: Move to this
Review: Bell hooks's book is an excellent introduction to the study of feminist politics. With clear and concise language, she revisits the beginnings of the movement, and tells us where it is now. She also succintly explains why feminism is not anti-male, anti-sex, or anti-family, but rather feminism is the struggle against rigid sexism in patriarchal cultures. Despite its plague of editorial errors, the book is highly recommended for the non-academic language and for the encouraging message hooks offers us.
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Summary: bell hooks rocks- and so does her book
Review: Feminism is for Everybody is a great book for third wave generation feminists. Most young feminists of today don't know the history of feminism that bell hooks recounts in this book. bell hooks explains how the current feminist movement lacks a strong sense of sisterhood, and one reason for that is our lack of participation in consciousness raising groups. We need safe, sacred space in which to work out our internalized sexism. We need to learn about feminism outside of the classroom as well as inside it. We need to come together across the lines of race, class, and education, and demand a revolution. hooks also dicusses some of the differences between "reform" feminism and "revolutionary" feminism, and why knowing about the distinction is so important. That helped me to understand one reason why today's feminism seems to exclude women of color and poor women so much. I highly recommend hooks' book for women (and men) who are new to feminism and to those who've been involved in the movement for a while. I think she has some excellent and important things to teach us about our movement and where it needs to go.
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Summary: DSH
Review: his is a great books if you are intellectually challenged. I have not met an intellignet, thinking woman who actually enjoyed this mess. Hooks should have stopped writing a few years ago. If you are interested in good feminist literature, read anything but this misdirected mess of garbled platitudes.Move on....
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Summary: Not really saying anything new
Review: I have always admired and respected the formidable intelligence of bell hooks. I have read her books since Ain't I A Woman when I was still a sophomore in college. While I don't agree with everything she says I feel her vision is quite insightful, but Feminism for Everybody is just recycled rhetoric, which has been a pattern of her books as of late. I feel this book is like every other book she has done, saying the same old things without any new insight or enlightenment. The one thing I notice is that for all her suggestions she never has a concise game plan on how to solve things based on her theory, although when she does criticism she is the first to write of other authors who don't share any type of solutions based on their rhetoric. This book is good for people who are ignorant and have a fear about feminism. It is a good introductory book, but if you're a seasoned reader, or activist I suggest you move on to something more substantial.
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