Full name: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Author: Bell Hooks Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780896086135 0896086135

A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the debates surrounding her controversial first book, Ain't I A Woman, bell hooks suggests that feminists have not succeeded in creating a mass movement against sexist oppression because the very foundation of women's liberation has, until now, not accounted for the complexity and diversity of female experience. In order to fulfill its revolutionary potential, feminist theory must begin by consciously transforming its own definition to encompass the lives and ideas of women on the margin. Hooks' work is a challenge to the women's movement and will have profound impact on all whose lives have been touched by feminism and its insights. Similar books: Communion: The Female Search for Love by Bell Hooks All About Love by Bell Hooks Talking Back by Bell Hooks Feminism without Borders by Chandra Talpade Mohanty The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone Ain't I a Woman by Bell Hooks Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks Sexual Politics by Kate Millett Fire with Fire by Naomi Wolf The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer The War Against Women by Marilyn French Outlaw Culture by Bell Hooks The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer Cunt by Inga Muscio Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti Manifesta by Jennifer Baumgardner Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti Where We Stand by Bell Hooks Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin