Feminist Theory
Title | Feminist Theory PDF eBook |
Author | bell hooks |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2014-10-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317588347 |
When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.
From Margin to Center
Title | From Margin to Center PDF eBook |
Author | Julie H. Reiss |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262681346 |
This is the first book-length study of installation art. JulieReiss concentrates on some of the central figures in its emergence,including artists, critics, and curators.
Feminism Is for Everybody
Title | Feminism Is for Everybody PDF eBook |
Author | bell hooks |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317588371 |
What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.
Ain't I a Woman
Title | Ain't I a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | bell hooks |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2014-12-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317588614 |
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.
Black Feminist Thought
Title | Black Feminist Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hill Collins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2002-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135960135 |
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.
Black Looks
Title | Black Looks PDF eBook |
Author | bell hooks |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317588487 |
In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert." As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do.
The Will to Change
Title | The Will to Change PDF eBook |
Author | bell hooks |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2004-01-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0743480333 |
From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all, with a new introduction by poet Ross Gay. Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men. Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to Change, bell hooks provides a compassionate guide for men of all ages and identities to understand how to be in touch with their feelings, and how to express versus repress the emotions that are a fundamental part of who we are. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. The Will to Change “creates space for men to acknowledge their traumas and heal—not only for their sake, but for the sake of everyone in their lives” (BuzzFeed).