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Hooks's Struggle For Equality
The most important point that I learn through this quarter is the definition of feminism. Before the
class, I thought that feminism means equal right, which means that women should have the same
rights in politics, employment, education and many others aspects as men have. However, through
learning, especially through reading about hooks's essay, I then realize that this definition, which
limited feminism to "equal rights", is not complete and inclusive enough to describe goals of all
women, no matter the race, age, and class, around the world. hooks tells me that "Women in lower
class and poor groups" "would not have defined women's liberation as women gaining social
equality with men" since lower–class women do not share equal rights as
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Hooks All About Love Hooks Analysis
Love can be categorized as romantic love, family love, friendship love. Yet, divine love is always
indispensable. However, do these religions really promote how to love? In All about love, hook
seems to disagree that religion is used effectively to promote how to love in the world. But is this
the truth? Are religions as hooks says, "corrupts and violates religion principles"? In this essay, I
will discuss how religions play a role in creating and practicing the spiritual love, then I will
examine oppositely and comment on how hooks criticize organized religions in promoting other
cultures. Lastly, I will examine how spiritual practice and religion beliefs work together to enhance
our spiritual life.
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She criticizes that divine spirit creates lovelessness by promoting individualism, materialism,
consumerism. She first suggests the spiritual life "co–opted by the powerful forces of materialism
and hedonistic consumerism." She even emphasizes that her target is American by explicitly
saying: "Yet an overwhelming majority of Americans who express faith in Christianity, Judaism,
Islam, Buddhism, or other religious traditions clearly believe that spiritual life is important."
(hooks 71) She demonstrates how our spiritual life is being replaced by consumerism by
referencing to The Art of Loving by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm: "While the zeal to possess
intensities, so does the sense of spiritual emptiness. Because we are spiritually empty we try to fill
up on consumerism. We may not have enough love but we can always shop." (hooks 72) She
criticizes that lovelessness is caused by materialism and consumerism. In response to lovelessness,
she suggests that this "can only be resurrected by spiritual awakening." (hooks 71) and lovelessness
will create spiritual hunger which she brings in the idea of organized religions here. She criticizes
that organized religion "has failed to satisfy spiritual hunger because it has accommodated secular
demands, interpreting spiritual life in ways that uphold the values of a production–centered
commodity culture." (hooks 72) Spirituality and religion play few roles here in reality, it upholds the
value of production–centered commodity culture, promoting segregation. I personally do not
support these ideas. Organized religions emphasize on "love" very much and religion believers act
out in the world based on their "bible". They do whatever the bible supports and promote love to
each other in the world. For example, Christian acts as what the bible said: "Be completely humble
and
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Hooks: A Short Story
Tendrils of searing, agonising pain surged across the young woman's flesh, pervading into the layers
of her skin as a curved, serrated–edged blade glided smoothly across the sensitive skin of her
stomach. Hooks, scorching hot, were embedded deep into the ashen flesh of her shoulders. She sunk
her teeth into the plump flesh of her bottom lip, sobs piling up at the hollow of her throat and
threatening to spill as the twenty–one year old woman thrashed against the many hands holding her
down. Her arms were numb, splayed away from her body at a perpendicular angle. Long, delicate
and pale fingers –calloused by hard work and long hours– were attached to bony wrists, bound by
thick, wrought–iron chains, barbed with sharp needles, blood oozing from
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The Bell Hooks: An Academic Learning Experience
Although education clearly offered Hooks an academic learning experience, the passage focuses
on the lessons about the intersection of races and class that Hooks learned about. Due to crippling
financial issues within her family, Hooks' mother taught her to label any of her costly desires as
wrong. She soon believed that the issue of money and class was too much of an issue for her to
worry about having "things a girl of my class would not ordinarily desire." This was the "hidden
curriculum" she learned of at home.
At school, she realized that she would have to struggle in order to keep to her morals and identity in
a crowd of people who felt contempt and envy towards richer students and students of higher classes
or other races that boasted
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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, bell hooks Style
bell hooks ties in the three elements of argument, ethos, pathos, and logos in her essay, "Keeping
Close to Home: Class and Education," by telling us about the many events of her life. hooks
establishes credibility, or ethos, unintentionally, through descriptions of her achievements and
character. hooks appeals to the readers logic, or logos, by giving real world examples from her
personal experiences. She also appeals to the readers emotions, or pathos. Pathos is the aspect of
argument she uses most heavily. hooks does this by talking about family, peers, feelings, and
change. hooks shows us ,in her essay, credibility, logic, and emotion using the stories of her life.
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It is important that we hold onto and cherish our past so that we may never be divided from it. One
way hooks remains faithful to her working class past is by speaking or writing in an
"anti–intellectual" way. When hooks feels she has an audience this would apply to, despite the
criticism she may receive, she uses eye contact, speaking directly to the audience. As hook points
out, "..., the use of a language and style of presentation that alienates most folks who are not also
academically trained reinforces the notion that the academic world is separate from the real life,
that everyday world where we constantly adjust our language and behavior to meet diverse needs"
(90). It is important that people work to keep the academic world from being a separate world as
bell hooks has done. bell hooks appeals to the reader's logic by truthfully stating how society divides
the academic and working class. She points out that when circumstances change, one's values usually
change as well. She says that young black people are encouraged by the dominant culture to believe
that assimilation is the only possible way to survive, to succeed. As hook argues, "Effort to
assimilate the values and beliefs of privileged white people, presented through media like television,
undermine and destroy potential structures of opposition" (89). hooks also points out that at Stanford
there were class differences, but it was an issue not to be dealt with. Everyone
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Feminism According To Hooks
Feminism according to Hooks, "movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."
Hooks likes her stated definition of feminism, because "it doesn't imply that men were the enemy.
by naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter". If you have sexist
thinking you have a problem both women and men can be sexist. According to Hooks many people
believe feminism to be; anti–men, women seeking to be equal to men, equal pay for equal work,
white and privileged. These people often learn about feminism through mass media and do not
believe feminism to be a sexist problem, but to understand feminism "it implies one has to
necessarily understand sexism" (Hooks,37) a majority of people do not understand what sexism
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When he said NO! I could not believe it. I said, "do you realize it is 2015 and women work harder
than most men."He said back to me, "Alana, there are things in my job that you can not do and
there are things in your job that I am not allowed to do legally. So, if we can not do equal work
then why should we get equal pay? I said "your black do you feel that a black man should get paid
what a white man gets paid?" He said, "yes"! I then said to him " well then my friend women and
men should be paid equally because just like you feel white and black men are equal so are men
and women". Our conversation went on and on for hours. I was so mad when he left my house. I
could not believe that this man I have know for 5 years really felt this way. I felt like no matter
what I said to try and convince him that women are equal and that men would not be living
beings if it wasn't for a women that we should get equal pay. I realized that he is not the only man
that feels this way. He is the first man that I have talked to about this and has felt that way. My
friend is not a bad man, I just feel his view on equal rights is just
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Bell Hooks
Women, Writing and Language: Broadening the Definition of Dominance
In her essay entitled Teaching the New Worlds/ New Words, bell hooks focuses on exploring and
illuminating the close link between language and oppression from a feminist perspective. Recording
that language is a self–imposing kaleidoscope of productive challenges and assistances that is
impossible to bond or repress; she suggests that trying to circumscribe, it according to their interest
is precisely what oppressors do with it. Hooks adresses African–Americans' relationship to the
Standard English as a reality more than a mere case study, and illuminating that how their native
language, their most immense mean of bonding to each other had been taken away from them and
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It can be seen that the poem clearly had an affection of hooks since the two texts have visibly parallel
mindsets. In fact, hooks highlights that parallelism by quoting a line from Rich: ''This is the
oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you.''(1) recurrently. hooks expresses that the words of
Rich inherently possess the power to demand disobedience to domination through language and they
evoke a deep craving to reach out the colonized peoples, to internalize how they suffered, got killed,
made languageless, exiled, marginalized. Naturally, Rich does not make this call by a theoretical,
dull understanding but through summoning to sympathy, ability to feel the expelled through the
imagination derived from being the other: being the other is the catalyst of the unification that
awakens the oppressed and make them seize the language, reinvent and utilize it to celebrate their
differences; and synchronously, draw in the non–others to a unfamilliar landscape of language. Even
though the words of the other would occur to the non–other as alien, the effort on encouraging the
majority to walk on the land of the other's knowledge without a claim of mastery or superiority is
crucial for a multicultural society to offer life to a broader range of individuals. Also, this sense of
learning without a sense of supremacy is one significant
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Hook: A Personal Narrative Of My Life
Hook
"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what
it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that."
Background info (birthplace, birthdate, any relevant childhood info., relevant relationship info., etc.):
I was born in the great city of Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. I would describe myself as short,
shy, chubby, and lonely as a child. Kids would never play with me because of those reasons so I
would talk to myself in funny voices as a form of entertainment. Although I also credit my mom for
my sense of humor too. Even in high school I was voted "Most humorous" but also "Least likely to
succeed."
Event #1: Be sure to include the date, place,...show more content...
I've won 55 awards out of 67 nominations. Two of my movies (Jumanji and The Birdcage) both
reached a total of $100 million in the same week. Not many actors and actresses can claim to have
achieved the same thing.Three of the movies that I was in were awarded an Oscar for Best Picture.
Event #6: Be sure to include the date, place, and time of events when available!
Of course I've made many famous friends along the way like my best friend Christopher Reeves who
was my college roommate and best known for his role of Superman. When he suffered from a
serious injury landing him in the hospital I came into the room as a Russian doctor and was the
first to make him laugh. That says a lot considering he fell off a horse which made him fracture his
neck and ended his career in 1995.
Event #7: Be sure to include the date, place, and time of events when available!
I'm a huge rugby fan and have visited New Zealand with my wife many times. That's where a met
Lomu who is part of the Rugby Union. You can see many pictures of me sitting on his shoulders
which shows how tall he really is.
Event #8: Be sure to include the date, place, and time of events when
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Class Matters By Bell Hooks Analysis
In CLASS MATTERS, Bell hooks cites her own path to class awareness Class is what that hooks
claims neither the rich people nor the poor ones want to talk about widely. Also, hooks puts the
spotlight on the harm done by silences. she wants to break the silence. "Class Matters" does a good
job of freeing class in the United States from various perspectives. "where we stand" played an
important role in changing people perspectives about their class. she addresses that if people moved
to an upper class, they shoudnt be that much influenced.
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Analysis Of The Oppositonal Gaze By Bell Hooks
[1] In bell hooks' childhood and upbringing as a woman of color in a society that is dominated by
patriarchy, it was hard for her to find images of herself in the media. In her essay "The
Oppositonal Gaze: Black Female Spectators", she details how black women do not see themselves
properly represented in media due to a white patriarchal society. Rather than showing the full scope
of black women and their diverse qualities and characteristics, they are generalized and forced to fit
one particular stereotype. With this image repeated time and time again, it is solidified in the minds
of the masses and this results in the underrepresented minority having a lowered status upon viewing
such media (hooks 118). This status forces them to look at...show more content...
As history is written by the victors, those in power decide what is included in history and what is
left out, either intentional or simply out of negligence. Upon viewing Walker's work, it becomes
evident that the skepticism that hooks argues is needed to create a truth from the distortions of
film is also necessary when analyzing written history. The sketch is the embodiment of the very
skepticism that defines the oppositional gaze. As hooks questions the way in which black women
are presented in a single light, Walker's gaze is interrogative of the praise bestowed unto
individuals who are favored by those who decide what is included in written history. She dismantles
idealistic representations of those deemed heroes. Her search for truth may appear to be
ill–mannered, but her cause is noble enough to justify these means of expression.
[3] To understand how Walker applies the oppositional gaze hooks describes, we must first see how
her work creates a look that opposes the traditionally–accepted representation. Her piece places a
great importance on the actions of viewing and looking. The image itself appears to be occurring
within a fisheye lens, a type of visual distortion that is commonly used to achieve a wider scope and
array of angles of view, allowing for a variety of perspectives to be analyzed. One of importance is
the gaze of the black woman
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bell hooks in "Love as the Practice of Freedom" explains thoroughly as to how love is the form to
be liberated. Without any love society is blind and continues to practice systems of domination
without being aware. However the community should look out for one another not just when a
problem impacts an individual. Everyone must be aware of the systems of domination–
imperialism,sexism,racism, and classism to create change. When radical love is comprehended it
allows the destruction of oppression,exploitation and there is liberation
`Radical love is the act of coming together and supporting one another as a whole. hooks reveals
that if there is no love there is no form that conflicts can be solved. If one self tries to liberate
themselves from oppression it will be a plan with no progress. It must be understood that love is a
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hooks explains how when an individual chooses to love at that moment is when a step is taking
forward to ending domination and oppression. To love is a practice of freedom and to help others
who are blind to become aware as a community. Liberty is approached when love is approached
this is when individuals seeks ways to liberate themselves." The moment we choose to love we
begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to
move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the
testimony of love as the practice of freedom" (hooks). Oppression and exploitation is destroyed
when love comes in and can only be destroyed when everyone as a community decided to take
action. Like in North Dakota when even veterans decide to support. Thousands of veterans from
around the country traveled to the standing rock and kneeled down to support the water protesters
who have been peacefully protesting. Love won and the so did the protestors because everyone
came a whole and
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Analysis Of Hook's Essay By Ann Hook
Hook's essay is a compelling literary piece that explored how the poor are represented. She wrote
about how she herself grew up poor and explored how our culture portrays the poor as lazy,
worthless, and dishonest. Hook also explained how in television and film the rich are seen as those
who are hard–working, honest, and eager to share.
In this essay Hook structures the essay so that whenever she talks about something she gives a real
world example or personal experience to back up her thoughts. This is a genius writing technique.
She is showing that she has reason to write about this topic and that she's not just making
assumptions.
In paragraphs 6 through 8 hook speaks about the relationship between poverty and personal integrity.
I notice
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Bell Hooks's Education
bell hooks, American feminist writer and literary critic, once said, "The classroom, with all its
limitations, remains a location of possibility." Even when she wrote these words over 20 years ago
in 1994, there was a clear, unsullied idea of what a child's education should be composed
ofв”Ђpossibilities. In the time of hooks' writing, America's people were being tested on their
strength as the deindustrialization of major cities occurred, leaving most of the factory workers
without money and homeless. After Reagan left office, there was an abundance to clean up. The
country's people were trying to create possibilities that might work out. The American school system
remains about what hooks said: possibilities. Even with the media continuously...show more content...
We see constant disparities in funding within our school system between class and between race.
Because of this, we need to regulate the funding between the "good school bad school poor
school rich school" paradigm. Why aren't there already laws permitting and enforcing equal
funding? In the ruling of Rodriguez vs. San Antonio Independent School district, it was found
that even if it was completely morally ethical, laws against or for inequitable funding are not in
the constitution and therefore it cannot be ruled upon in the high court. So, even if two schools
in the same district are within a 10,000 dollars funding difference, a pupil cannot do anything
about it because it doesn't say anything about it in the constitution. States in the deep south, like
Texas and Alabama, get the least funding, says a study done by the National Law Center for
Education. The U.S. average for funding per state is $10,132 for one pupil. Tennessee's money
spent per pupil is $6,839. Also, Tennessee has one of the lowest GDPs and its education effort is
one of the lowest. Why is this? Because Tennessee still didn't take advantage of its fiscal capacity,
and that's why it received an F on the effort scale. In a study done by Education Trust, it said that
there is a 1,200 dollar gap between the districts with the most poverty and the districts with the least
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Essay about Bell Hooks
Is Education Equal?
The United States provides our society with the undeniable right to learn. The right to higher
education is not limited to the middle and upper classes; it allows the less privileged, minorities, as
well as both sexes, to receive an equal education. Two arguments which present interesting views on
higher education are bell hook’s “Keeping Close to Home'; and Adrienne
Rich’s “What Does a Woman Need to Know?'; Hooks views higher
education with a concern for the underprivileged, whereas Rich views it with a concern for women.
Of the two works, I personally do not agree with Rich’s argument.
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Society, peers, and educators make assumptions that label the underprivileged and minorities as
“‘lower class’ people'; who have “no beliefs or
values';(88). Professors expect these students to perform badly because of their past and their
reputation in today’s society. The students are not given the fair chance other students
receive. Knowing the way society portrays them, the students keep to themselves. Even after they
prove to be serious and capable students, they are still looked down upon. Hooks, at first, thought
that in order to succeed in college, she must change who she was, to blend in with her peers. She
said many “believe that assimilation is the only possible way to survive, to
succeed.';(89). After going through the transition and facing these obstacles herself, hooks came to
the conclusion that this was not the case. She has maintained close ties with her family, knows
where she came from, and has succeeded in life. Hook’s essay tells us that you can
maintain close relationships with home and still succeed.
Not only are the underprivileged discriminated against, but women are too. One extreme feminist
side, Adrienne Rich claims that women are not getting what they deserve when it comes to higher
education. Rich states, “There is no woman’s college today which is
providing young women with
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Hook's Essay: Keeping Close To Home
In Hook's essay titled "Keeping Close to Home" she uses many of her own personal experiences to
transition into analyzing society. A few personal experiences of Hook's that caught my attention
were how she discussed the barriers that were created by economic class differences between
students. Coming from a working class family , when she attended college she felt a sense of
inferiority to the other students. This inferiority made it difficult for her to discuss her financial
situations or home life with any of her peers. Hook stated "I talked to no one about the sources of
my shame, how it hurts to witness the contempt shown to the brown–skinned Filipina maids who
cleaned our rooms, or later my concern about the $100 a month I paid for
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Motivational Hooks: A Case Study
The councillor needs to be clued into the things that the client relays to them that might indicate a
motivation to change their pattern of alcohol abuse. These 'motivational hooks' will be the things
that will drive the the client to stop their drinking. Potential motivational hooks might be having
custody of children taken away, the possibility of losing a house over non–payments, potential
divorce over a partner, losing a job due to being absentee one too many times, losing a drivers
license, severe health problems
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An Analysis Of Touching The Earth By Bell Hooks
"When we love the Earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully" (Hooks 968). This is the first
sentence that Bell Hooks uses in the reading of "Touching the Earth," that essentially summarizes the
article. The obvious language being that the Earth can bring unity between others and the Earth
brings a sense of comfort when connected with itself. The article "Touching the Earth" effectively
portrays the necessity of staying in touch with the Earth by providing strong quotations from
experienced people, incorporating pathos in a highly desirable subject, and using the evidence of
history to display her argument.
Hooks integrates multiple citations from other credible sources into her writing to provide evidence
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The incorporation of pathos in an argument can form a strong structured reading or a make the
reader feel emotionally taken advantage of. In Hooks argument she uses pathos effectively, without
exploiting readers of her article. She states, "estrangement from nature and engagement in mind/body
splits made it all the more possible for black people to internalize white–supremacist assumptions
about black identity" (973). Hooks uses this sentence to appeal to those who have experienced a
loss of identity to feel for the blacks. Also, the citation brings a desirable topic up of unity within
different race and cultures, which adds more reason for the reader to be persuaded to her side of the
argument: the emotional pull of how blacks were treated even away from their normal ways of living.
Within the article, the use of movement from one urbanization to another creates the historical
evidence showing that connections to the Earth are a necessity. One example of this includes the
"great migration", which was a migration of black people trying to escape from racism in the
agrarian south to the industrialized north (Hooks 971). Hooks explains that their new way of life
in the North still consisted of racism. Their bodies became slaves to work instead of tending to the
nature of their bodies, and they began to feel mentally and physically drained (Hooks 972). The
blacks ended up moving back to the south to try and reconnect with the Earth and gain their old way
of life back to
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Informative Essay Hook
Pinkston, Anna Dr. Jeff Newberry ENGL 1101H August 26, 2017 As my ninth
–grade English
teacher, Mrs. Newton would say, without a good hook to start your essay, no one will ever read
it. As I was taught, a hook is a crucial part in your essay because it will help grab the audience's
attention so that they will continue to be invested throughout the paper. For example, the hook
could be a question or a quote about the overall topic of your essay. In my junior year, we had to
do a controversial essay and I used a quote from a famous tattoo artist as my hook because I did my
essay over tattoos and piercings. After the hook, the introduction begins to take form and show the
audience what your essay is about. The introduction is the first thing in your essay that will tell the
audience what the essay is about. The introduction paragraph should be as interesting as the initial
hook and keep the audience invested in the paper. It will establish the basis of the essay and should
contain the thesis statement. The thesis statement is the point in your essay where you will state the
topics that the essay will contain. In high school, we were taught that the thesis should contain the
three points that you will elaborate upon in your three body paragraphs: the weakest point, the
middle point, and the strongest point. The first body paragraph should be the weakest or simplest
way to get the overall point of the essay across to the readers. This will be the foundation of all three
points,
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Bell Hooks Feminist Theory Analysis
In the Feminist Theory, bell hooks provide vivid examples and assertions on how mainstream
feminism exclude the issues of women of color. Mainstream feminism in America pertains to the
ideals of "white, middle–class privileged woman" as they "reinforce white supremacy by negating
the issue of race and class amongst woman of color" (hooks, 2000, pg. ). Due to not fulfilling the
attempt to gain equality, as they may claim to do, it also can be an organization that displays
"narcissism, insensitivity, sentimentality, and self–indulgence" (hooks, 2000, pg. 3). As mainstream
feminism shuns the needs and interests of African–American women, it allows current social issues
and inequalities to persist. Hooks asserts how stereotypes about African–American women are
plagued within the feminist system, as many women of color endure a form of...show more content...
As African–American women address social issues that are important to their life experiences, such
as class and race, instead to acknowledge "common oppression" of gender inequality, they are often
criticized by "white bourgeois feminists" (hooks, 2000). Their ability to gain any form of equality
within society is tarnished by such groups as they develop a "fear of encountering racism" from
simply joining this movement (hooks, 2000). As white men, black men, and white women oppress
them, their issues are often ignored due to reoccurring stereotypes and myths that claim black
women are strong, independent, and "superhuman" (hooks, 2000). It becomes extremely difficult to
seek liberation and equity within a "racist, sexist, and classist" society, as their gender and race
causes them to be at the "bottom of the occupational ladder" and "social status" (hooks, 2000, pg.
16). As black women are perceived to demonstrate strength and dynamic qualities as white women
perpetrate the image of being
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Reactions to Hooks' Feminism is for Everybody
I am not a feminist simply because I was raised in a feminist household. I am not a feminist
because I am an independent, educated woman. I am not a feminist because I am a bitter female,
nor because I am a "woman scorned." I am not a feminist because I hate men, nor because I am a
lesbian nor because I like to listen to the Indigo Girls. To the contrary I love men and I am not a
lesbian. While I agree with hooks that "feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation,
and oppression" (viii), I believe that her definition of "feminism" states the goals of the movement
rather than actually defining the term itself. In my mind, feminism is a synonym for equality. I am a
feminist...show more content...
While sexism is no longer as overt a practice as in the past, it is arguably just as pervasive. bell
hooks' life as an academic has been spent trying to breakdown the existent sexist barriers, which have
prohibited women from achieving equality with men.
In Feminism is for Everybody, hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common
sense and the wisdom of her own personal experience. In my opinion, hooks' book is perfectly
poised to become THE OFFICIAL "handbook" or "cliff notes" to feminism. Although it's short,
Feminism is for Everybody is powerful. It addresses all of the most prevalent issues facing the
contemporary feminist movement, everything from where feminism stands, reproductive choice,
beauty, violence, race, class, work, all the way to where feminism will go in the future. She uses
simple, direct language to express complex issues. However, that is not to say that she
"dumbs–down" such topics. Rather, she makes them more comprehensible to those not as familiar
with feminism as a discipline. This book offers everyone (man or woman) a chance to explore
feminism. It serves as an eye–opener to all those "would be" feminists who are afraid to label
themselves as such for fear of being called a man hater or worse, a lesbian! She dispels these myths
and others, forcing her audience
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  • 1. Hooks's Struggle For Equality The most important point that I learn through this quarter is the definition of feminism. Before the class, I thought that feminism means equal right, which means that women should have the same rights in politics, employment, education and many others aspects as men have. However, through learning, especially through reading about hooks's essay, I then realize that this definition, which limited feminism to "equal rights", is not complete and inclusive enough to describe goals of all women, no matter the race, age, and class, around the world. hooks tells me that "Women in lower class and poor groups" "would not have defined women's liberation as women gaining social equality with men" since lower–class women do not share equal rights as Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. Hooks All About Love Hooks Analysis Love can be categorized as romantic love, family love, friendship love. Yet, divine love is always indispensable. However, do these religions really promote how to love? In All about love, hook seems to disagree that religion is used effectively to promote how to love in the world. But is this the truth? Are religions as hooks says, "corrupts and violates religion principles"? In this essay, I will discuss how religions play a role in creating and practicing the spiritual love, then I will examine oppositely and comment on how hooks criticize organized religions in promoting other cultures. Lastly, I will examine how spiritual practice and religion beliefs work together to enhance our spiritual life. First, hook suggests there is a spiritual...show more content... She criticizes that divine spirit creates lovelessness by promoting individualism, materialism, consumerism. She first suggests the spiritual life "co–opted by the powerful forces of materialism and hedonistic consumerism." She even emphasizes that her target is American by explicitly saying: "Yet an overwhelming majority of Americans who express faith in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, or other religious traditions clearly believe that spiritual life is important." (hooks 71) She demonstrates how our spiritual life is being replaced by consumerism by referencing to The Art of Loving by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm: "While the zeal to possess intensities, so does the sense of spiritual emptiness. Because we are spiritually empty we try to fill up on consumerism. We may not have enough love but we can always shop." (hooks 72) She criticizes that lovelessness is caused by materialism and consumerism. In response to lovelessness, she suggests that this "can only be resurrected by spiritual awakening." (hooks 71) and lovelessness will create spiritual hunger which she brings in the idea of organized religions here. She criticizes that organized religion "has failed to satisfy spiritual hunger because it has accommodated secular demands, interpreting spiritual life in ways that uphold the values of a production–centered commodity culture." (hooks 72) Spirituality and religion play few roles here in reality, it upholds the value of production–centered commodity culture, promoting segregation. I personally do not support these ideas. Organized religions emphasize on "love" very much and religion believers act out in the world based on their "bible". They do whatever the bible supports and promote love to each other in the world. For example, Christian acts as what the bible said: "Be completely humble and Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Hooks: A Short Story Tendrils of searing, agonising pain surged across the young woman's flesh, pervading into the layers of her skin as a curved, serrated–edged blade glided smoothly across the sensitive skin of her stomach. Hooks, scorching hot, were embedded deep into the ashen flesh of her shoulders. She sunk her teeth into the plump flesh of her bottom lip, sobs piling up at the hollow of her throat and threatening to spill as the twenty–one year old woman thrashed against the many hands holding her down. Her arms were numb, splayed away from her body at a perpendicular angle. Long, delicate and pale fingers –calloused by hard work and long hours– were attached to bony wrists, bound by thick, wrought–iron chains, barbed with sharp needles, blood oozing from Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. The Bell Hooks: An Academic Learning Experience Although education clearly offered Hooks an academic learning experience, the passage focuses on the lessons about the intersection of races and class that Hooks learned about. Due to crippling financial issues within her family, Hooks' mother taught her to label any of her costly desires as wrong. She soon believed that the issue of money and class was too much of an issue for her to worry about having "things a girl of my class would not ordinarily desire." This was the "hidden curriculum" she learned of at home. At school, she realized that she would have to struggle in order to keep to her morals and identity in a crowd of people who felt contempt and envy towards richer students and students of higher classes or other races that boasted Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, bell hooks Style bell hooks ties in the three elements of argument, ethos, pathos, and logos in her essay, "Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education," by telling us about the many events of her life. hooks establishes credibility, or ethos, unintentionally, through descriptions of her achievements and character. hooks appeals to the readers logic, or logos, by giving real world examples from her personal experiences. She also appeals to the readers emotions, or pathos. Pathos is the aspect of argument she uses most heavily. hooks does this by talking about family, peers, feelings, and change. hooks shows us ,in her essay, credibility, logic, and emotion using the stories of her life. bell hooks is a...show more content... It is important that we hold onto and cherish our past so that we may never be divided from it. One way hooks remains faithful to her working class past is by speaking or writing in an "anti–intellectual" way. When hooks feels she has an audience this would apply to, despite the criticism she may receive, she uses eye contact, speaking directly to the audience. As hook points out, "..., the use of a language and style of presentation that alienates most folks who are not also academically trained reinforces the notion that the academic world is separate from the real life, that everyday world where we constantly adjust our language and behavior to meet diverse needs" (90). It is important that people work to keep the academic world from being a separate world as bell hooks has done. bell hooks appeals to the reader's logic by truthfully stating how society divides the academic and working class. She points out that when circumstances change, one's values usually change as well. She says that young black people are encouraged by the dominant culture to believe that assimilation is the only possible way to survive, to succeed. As hook argues, "Effort to assimilate the values and beliefs of privileged white people, presented through media like television, undermine and destroy potential structures of opposition" (89). hooks also points out that at Stanford there were class differences, but it was an issue not to be dealt with. Everyone Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. Feminism According To Hooks Feminism according to Hooks, "movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." Hooks likes her stated definition of feminism, because "it doesn't imply that men were the enemy. by naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter". If you have sexist thinking you have a problem both women and men can be sexist. According to Hooks many people believe feminism to be; anti–men, women seeking to be equal to men, equal pay for equal work, white and privileged. These people often learn about feminism through mass media and do not believe feminism to be a sexist problem, but to understand feminism "it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism" (Hooks,37) a majority of people do not understand what sexism ...show more content... When he said NO! I could not believe it. I said, "do you realize it is 2015 and women work harder than most men."He said back to me, "Alana, there are things in my job that you can not do and there are things in your job that I am not allowed to do legally. So, if we can not do equal work then why should we get equal pay? I said "your black do you feel that a black man should get paid what a white man gets paid?" He said, "yes"! I then said to him " well then my friend women and men should be paid equally because just like you feel white and black men are equal so are men and women". Our conversation went on and on for hours. I was so mad when he left my house. I could not believe that this man I have know for 5 years really felt this way. I felt like no matter what I said to try and convince him that women are equal and that men would not be living beings if it wasn't for a women that we should get equal pay. I realized that he is not the only man that feels this way. He is the first man that I have talked to about this and has felt that way. My friend is not a bad man, I just feel his view on equal rights is just Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Bell Hooks Women, Writing and Language: Broadening the Definition of Dominance In her essay entitled Teaching the New Worlds/ New Words, bell hooks focuses on exploring and illuminating the close link between language and oppression from a feminist perspective. Recording that language is a self–imposing kaleidoscope of productive challenges and assistances that is impossible to bond or repress; she suggests that trying to circumscribe, it according to their interest is precisely what oppressors do with it. Hooks adresses African–Americans' relationship to the Standard English as a reality more than a mere case study, and illuminating that how their native language, their most immense mean of bonding to each other had been taken away from them and ...show more content... It can be seen that the poem clearly had an affection of hooks since the two texts have visibly parallel mindsets. In fact, hooks highlights that parallelism by quoting a line from Rich: ''This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you.''(1) recurrently. hooks expresses that the words of Rich inherently possess the power to demand disobedience to domination through language and they evoke a deep craving to reach out the colonized peoples, to internalize how they suffered, got killed, made languageless, exiled, marginalized. Naturally, Rich does not make this call by a theoretical, dull understanding but through summoning to sympathy, ability to feel the expelled through the imagination derived from being the other: being the other is the catalyst of the unification that awakens the oppressed and make them seize the language, reinvent and utilize it to celebrate their differences; and synchronously, draw in the non–others to a unfamilliar landscape of language. Even though the words of the other would occur to the non–other as alien, the effort on encouraging the majority to walk on the land of the other's knowledge without a claim of mastery or superiority is crucial for a multicultural society to offer life to a broader range of individuals. Also, this sense of learning without a sense of supremacy is one significant Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 8. Hook: A Personal Narrative Of My Life Hook "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that." Background info (birthplace, birthdate, any relevant childhood info., relevant relationship info., etc.): I was born in the great city of Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. I would describe myself as short, shy, chubby, and lonely as a child. Kids would never play with me because of those reasons so I would talk to myself in funny voices as a form of entertainment. Although I also credit my mom for my sense of humor too. Even in high school I was voted "Most humorous" but also "Least likely to succeed." Event #1: Be sure to include the date, place,...show more content... I've won 55 awards out of 67 nominations. Two of my movies (Jumanji and The Birdcage) both reached a total of $100 million in the same week. Not many actors and actresses can claim to have achieved the same thing.Three of the movies that I was in were awarded an Oscar for Best Picture. Event #6: Be sure to include the date, place, and time of events when available! Of course I've made many famous friends along the way like my best friend Christopher Reeves who was my college roommate and best known for his role of Superman. When he suffered from a serious injury landing him in the hospital I came into the room as a Russian doctor and was the first to make him laugh. That says a lot considering he fell off a horse which made him fracture his neck and ended his career in 1995. Event #7: Be sure to include the date, place, and time of events when available! I'm a huge rugby fan and have visited New Zealand with my wife many times. That's where a met Lomu who is part of the Rugby Union. You can see many pictures of me sitting on his shoulders which shows how tall he really is. Event #8: Be sure to include the date, place, and time of events when Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 9. Class Matters By Bell Hooks Analysis In CLASS MATTERS, Bell hooks cites her own path to class awareness Class is what that hooks claims neither the rich people nor the poor ones want to talk about widely. Also, hooks puts the spotlight on the harm done by silences. she wants to break the silence. "Class Matters" does a good job of freeing class in the United States from various perspectives. "where we stand" played an important role in changing people perspectives about their class. she addresses that if people moved to an upper class, they shoudnt be that much influenced. Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. Analysis Of The Oppositonal Gaze By Bell Hooks [1] In bell hooks' childhood and upbringing as a woman of color in a society that is dominated by patriarchy, it was hard for her to find images of herself in the media. In her essay "The Oppositonal Gaze: Black Female Spectators", she details how black women do not see themselves properly represented in media due to a white patriarchal society. Rather than showing the full scope of black women and their diverse qualities and characteristics, they are generalized and forced to fit one particular stereotype. With this image repeated time and time again, it is solidified in the minds of the masses and this results in the underrepresented minority having a lowered status upon viewing such media (hooks 118). This status forces them to look at...show more content... As history is written by the victors, those in power decide what is included in history and what is left out, either intentional or simply out of negligence. Upon viewing Walker's work, it becomes evident that the skepticism that hooks argues is needed to create a truth from the distortions of film is also necessary when analyzing written history. The sketch is the embodiment of the very skepticism that defines the oppositional gaze. As hooks questions the way in which black women are presented in a single light, Walker's gaze is interrogative of the praise bestowed unto individuals who are favored by those who decide what is included in written history. She dismantles idealistic representations of those deemed heroes. Her search for truth may appear to be ill–mannered, but her cause is noble enough to justify these means of expression. [3] To understand how Walker applies the oppositional gaze hooks describes, we must first see how her work creates a look that opposes the traditionally–accepted representation. Her piece places a great importance on the actions of viewing and looking. The image itself appears to be occurring within a fisheye lens, a type of visual distortion that is commonly used to achieve a wider scope and array of angles of view, allowing for a variety of perspectives to be analyzed. One of importance is the gaze of the black woman Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. bell hooks in "Love as the Practice of Freedom" explains thoroughly as to how love is the form to be liberated. Without any love society is blind and continues to practice systems of domination without being aware. However the community should look out for one another not just when a problem impacts an individual. Everyone must be aware of the systems of domination– imperialism,sexism,racism, and classism to create change. When radical love is comprehended it allows the destruction of oppression,exploitation and there is liberation `Radical love is the act of coming together and supporting one another as a whole. hooks reveals that if there is no love there is no form that conflicts can be solved. If one self tries to liberate themselves from oppression it will be a plan with no progress. It must be understood that love is a way...show more content... hooks explains how when an individual chooses to love at that moment is when a step is taking forward to ending domination and oppression. To love is a practice of freedom and to help others who are blind to become aware as a community. Liberty is approached when love is approached this is when individuals seeks ways to liberate themselves." The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom" (hooks). Oppression and exploitation is destroyed when love comes in and can only be destroyed when everyone as a community decided to take action. Like in North Dakota when even veterans decide to support. Thousands of veterans from around the country traveled to the standing rock and kneeled down to support the water protesters who have been peacefully protesting. Love won and the so did the protestors because everyone came a whole and Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 12. Analysis Of Hook's Essay By Ann Hook Hook's essay is a compelling literary piece that explored how the poor are represented. She wrote about how she herself grew up poor and explored how our culture portrays the poor as lazy, worthless, and dishonest. Hook also explained how in television and film the rich are seen as those who are hard–working, honest, and eager to share. In this essay Hook structures the essay so that whenever she talks about something she gives a real world example or personal experience to back up her thoughts. This is a genius writing technique. She is showing that she has reason to write about this topic and that she's not just making assumptions. In paragraphs 6 through 8 hook speaks about the relationship between poverty and personal integrity. I notice Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 13. Bell Hooks's Education bell hooks, American feminist writer and literary critic, once said, "The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility." Even when she wrote these words over 20 years ago in 1994, there was a clear, unsullied idea of what a child's education should be composed ofв”Ђpossibilities. In the time of hooks' writing, America's people were being tested on their strength as the deindustrialization of major cities occurred, leaving most of the factory workers without money and homeless. After Reagan left office, there was an abundance to clean up. The country's people were trying to create possibilities that might work out. The American school system remains about what hooks said: possibilities. Even with the media continuously...show more content... We see constant disparities in funding within our school system between class and between race. Because of this, we need to regulate the funding between the "good school bad school poor school rich school" paradigm. Why aren't there already laws permitting and enforcing equal funding? In the ruling of Rodriguez vs. San Antonio Independent School district, it was found that even if it was completely morally ethical, laws against or for inequitable funding are not in the constitution and therefore it cannot be ruled upon in the high court. So, even if two schools in the same district are within a 10,000 dollars funding difference, a pupil cannot do anything about it because it doesn't say anything about it in the constitution. States in the deep south, like Texas and Alabama, get the least funding, says a study done by the National Law Center for Education. The U.S. average for funding per state is $10,132 for one pupil. Tennessee's money spent per pupil is $6,839. Also, Tennessee has one of the lowest GDPs and its education effort is one of the lowest. Why is this? Because Tennessee still didn't take advantage of its fiscal capacity, and that's why it received an F on the effort scale. In a study done by Education Trust, it said that there is a 1,200 dollar gap between the districts with the most poverty and the districts with the least Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 14. Essay about Bell Hooks Is Education Equal? The United States provides our society with the undeniable right to learn. The right to higher education is not limited to the middle and upper classes; it allows the less privileged, minorities, as well as both sexes, to receive an equal education. Two arguments which present interesting views on higher education are bell hook’s “Keeping Close to Home'; and Adrienne Rich’s “What Does a Woman Need to Know?'; Hooks views higher education with a concern for the underprivileged, whereas Rich views it with a concern for women. Of the two works, I personally do not agree with Rich’s argument. Bell hooks views...show more content... Society, peers, and educators make assumptions that label the underprivileged and minorities as “‘lower class’ people'; who have “no beliefs or values';(88). Professors expect these students to perform badly because of their past and their reputation in today’s society. The students are not given the fair chance other students receive. Knowing the way society portrays them, the students keep to themselves. Even after they prove to be serious and capable students, they are still looked down upon. Hooks, at first, thought that in order to succeed in college, she must change who she was, to blend in with her peers. She said many “believe that assimilation is the only possible way to survive, to succeed.';(89). After going through the transition and facing these obstacles herself, hooks came to the conclusion that this was not the case. She has maintained close ties with her family, knows where she came from, and has succeeded in life. Hook’s essay tells us that you can maintain close relationships with home and still succeed. Not only are the underprivileged discriminated against, but women are too. One extreme feminist side, Adrienne Rich claims that women are not getting what they deserve when it comes to higher education. Rich states, “There is no woman’s college today which is providing young women with Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 15. Hook's Essay: Keeping Close To Home In Hook's essay titled "Keeping Close to Home" she uses many of her own personal experiences to transition into analyzing society. A few personal experiences of Hook's that caught my attention were how she discussed the barriers that were created by economic class differences between students. Coming from a working class family , when she attended college she felt a sense of inferiority to the other students. This inferiority made it difficult for her to discuss her financial situations or home life with any of her peers. Hook stated "I talked to no one about the sources of my shame, how it hurts to witness the contempt shown to the brown–skinned Filipina maids who cleaned our rooms, or later my concern about the $100 a month I paid for Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. Motivational Hooks: A Case Study The councillor needs to be clued into the things that the client relays to them that might indicate a motivation to change their pattern of alcohol abuse. These 'motivational hooks' will be the things that will drive the the client to stop their drinking. Potential motivational hooks might be having custody of children taken away, the possibility of losing a house over non–payments, potential divorce over a partner, losing a job due to being absentee one too many times, losing a drivers license, severe health problems Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. An Analysis Of Touching The Earth By Bell Hooks "When we love the Earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully" (Hooks 968). This is the first sentence that Bell Hooks uses in the reading of "Touching the Earth," that essentially summarizes the article. The obvious language being that the Earth can bring unity between others and the Earth brings a sense of comfort when connected with itself. The article "Touching the Earth" effectively portrays the necessity of staying in touch with the Earth by providing strong quotations from experienced people, incorporating pathos in a highly desirable subject, and using the evidence of history to display her argument. Hooks integrates multiple citations from other credible sources into her writing to provide evidence and support to her own...show more content... The incorporation of pathos in an argument can form a strong structured reading or a make the reader feel emotionally taken advantage of. In Hooks argument she uses pathos effectively, without exploiting readers of her article. She states, "estrangement from nature and engagement in mind/body splits made it all the more possible for black people to internalize white–supremacist assumptions about black identity" (973). Hooks uses this sentence to appeal to those who have experienced a loss of identity to feel for the blacks. Also, the citation brings a desirable topic up of unity within different race and cultures, which adds more reason for the reader to be persuaded to her side of the argument: the emotional pull of how blacks were treated even away from their normal ways of living. Within the article, the use of movement from one urbanization to another creates the historical evidence showing that connections to the Earth are a necessity. One example of this includes the "great migration", which was a migration of black people trying to escape from racism in the agrarian south to the industrialized north (Hooks 971). Hooks explains that their new way of life in the North still consisted of racism. Their bodies became slaves to work instead of tending to the nature of their bodies, and they began to feel mentally and physically drained (Hooks 972). The blacks ended up moving back to the south to try and reconnect with the Earth and gain their old way of life back to Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. Informative Essay Hook Pinkston, Anna Dr. Jeff Newberry ENGL 1101H August 26, 2017 As my ninth –grade English teacher, Mrs. Newton would say, without a good hook to start your essay, no one will ever read it. As I was taught, a hook is a crucial part in your essay because it will help grab the audience's attention so that they will continue to be invested throughout the paper. For example, the hook could be a question or a quote about the overall topic of your essay. In my junior year, we had to do a controversial essay and I used a quote from a famous tattoo artist as my hook because I did my essay over tattoos and piercings. After the hook, the introduction begins to take form and show the audience what your essay is about. The introduction is the first thing in your essay that will tell the audience what the essay is about. The introduction paragraph should be as interesting as the initial hook and keep the audience invested in the paper. It will establish the basis of the essay and should contain the thesis statement. The thesis statement is the point in your essay where you will state the topics that the essay will contain. In high school, we were taught that the thesis should contain the three points that you will elaborate upon in your three body paragraphs: the weakest point, the middle point, and the strongest point. The first body paragraph should be the weakest or simplest way to get the overall point of the essay across to the readers. This will be the foundation of all three points, Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 19. Bell Hooks Feminist Theory Analysis In the Feminist Theory, bell hooks provide vivid examples and assertions on how mainstream feminism exclude the issues of women of color. Mainstream feminism in America pertains to the ideals of "white, middle–class privileged woman" as they "reinforce white supremacy by negating the issue of race and class amongst woman of color" (hooks, 2000, pg. ). Due to not fulfilling the attempt to gain equality, as they may claim to do, it also can be an organization that displays "narcissism, insensitivity, sentimentality, and self–indulgence" (hooks, 2000, pg. 3). As mainstream feminism shuns the needs and interests of African–American women, it allows current social issues and inequalities to persist. Hooks asserts how stereotypes about African–American women are plagued within the feminist system, as many women of color endure a form of...show more content... As African–American women address social issues that are important to their life experiences, such as class and race, instead to acknowledge "common oppression" of gender inequality, they are often criticized by "white bourgeois feminists" (hooks, 2000). Their ability to gain any form of equality within society is tarnished by such groups as they develop a "fear of encountering racism" from simply joining this movement (hooks, 2000). As white men, black men, and white women oppress them, their issues are often ignored due to reoccurring stereotypes and myths that claim black women are strong, independent, and "superhuman" (hooks, 2000). It becomes extremely difficult to seek liberation and equity within a "racist, sexist, and classist" society, as their gender and race causes them to be at the "bottom of the occupational ladder" and "social status" (hooks, 2000, pg. 16). As black women are perceived to demonstrate strength and dynamic qualities as white women perpetrate the image of being Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 20. Reactions to Hooks' Feminism is for Everybody I am not a feminist simply because I was raised in a feminist household. I am not a feminist because I am an independent, educated woman. I am not a feminist because I am a bitter female, nor because I am a "woman scorned." I am not a feminist because I hate men, nor because I am a lesbian nor because I like to listen to the Indigo Girls. To the contrary I love men and I am not a lesbian. While I agree with hooks that "feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression" (viii), I believe that her definition of "feminism" states the goals of the movement rather than actually defining the term itself. In my mind, feminism is a synonym for equality. I am a feminist...show more content... While sexism is no longer as overt a practice as in the past, it is arguably just as pervasive. bell hooks' life as an academic has been spent trying to breakdown the existent sexist barriers, which have prohibited women from achieving equality with men. In Feminism is for Everybody, hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of her own personal experience. In my opinion, hooks' book is perfectly poised to become THE OFFICIAL "handbook" or "cliff notes" to feminism. Although it's short, Feminism is for Everybody is powerful. It addresses all of the most prevalent issues facing the contemporary feminist movement, everything from where feminism stands, reproductive choice, beauty, violence, race, class, work, all the way to where feminism will go in the future. She uses simple, direct language to express complex issues. However, that is not to say that she "dumbs–down" such topics. Rather, she makes them more comprehensible to those not as familiar with feminism as a discipline. This book offers everyone (man or woman) a chance to explore feminism. It serves as an eye–opener to all those "would be" feminists who are afraid to label themselves as such for fear of being called a man hater or worse, a lesbian! She dispels these myths and others, forcing her audience Get more content on HelpWriting.net