Bell Hooks Quotes about Feminism

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Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life.

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

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Feminism, Majority, Oppression

bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

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Struggle, Feminism, Western Culture

bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

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Feminism, Movement, Oppression

"Feminism Is for Everybody". Book by Bell Hooks, 2000.

feminism is for everybody

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Motivational, Feminism

bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, Routledge

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

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Black, Feminism, Phrases

Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.