Feminism can get a bad rap. Male critics perceive feminists as man-hating tyrannical matriarchs who wish nothing more than to use. Imagine terms like patriarchy to justify their disdain for those within the movement. May see others as only using the label for virtue. Signaling points to a lack of coherence and progress in defining. Feminism. Defining and pursuing feminism that accounts for these critiques is quite tricky. Thankfully,
 There are Bell hooks.
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 Born Gloria, Jean Watkins Bell, hooks, grew up in a small segregated town, where she struggled to find her identity in a rich magical world of Southern Black Culture. That was sometimes paradisiacal and, at other times, terrifying to deal with. She would read an insane amount, eventually pursuing a BA in English from Stanford and an MA in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During this time, she
 Begin a 10-year project writing. The book isn’t IA, woman black, women and feminism. This book had a profound impact on the world; when it was finally published in 1981, she examined the double Oppression of black women who experienced both racism and sexism. She argues that these Twin Towers of domination that began in slavery led to black women having the lowest status and worst conditions out of any minority in the US.
 This is partially explained by the blind spots in white female abolitionists who preferred to associate with black male abolitionists rather than females specifically; she notes that slavery led to the stereotype of black female promiscuity, which generalized white women as pure goddess virgins, and two black women, as seductive stereotypes that were historical, used to define all women. This shift was used to justify the exclusion of black women from sharing their perspectives.
 Hooks then turns to black nationalism, criticizing it as patriarchal and misogynist. She notes that the movement readily took up the idea of the black matriarch, which argues that the position of black women in the family has led to a psychological castration of the black male. And from this, the downfall of the black family. This has again resulted in the exclusion of black women from being taken seriously.
 Finally, hooks turned to the feminist movement; she views feminism as largely failing to represent the needs of the poor and non-white. In turn, women enabled further sexism, racism, and classism. She calls for a more inclusive and representative form of feminism that will give black women a chance to be represented. The book was critically acclaimed, especially in its novel ability to correlate the history of slavery, black women, and the Ripple effects of the
 Action in modern American Society. However, the book was also criticized for being unscholarly in its absence of a bibliography. However, hooks explain that such a strategy must encourage as broad an audience as possible. Others such as Keysha and Nicole Abraham have argued that this shows that hooks consider her audience lazy and unsophisticated.
 Hooks would go on to publish over 30 books, ranging and topics from black men. Although patriarchal to love and self-improvement, aside from a controversial, anti-American commencement speech she gave shortly after 9/11, hooks mostly kept herself out of the spotlight in 2017. She would confess that she had been celibate for 17 years. Although she would like a partner, she didn’t feel like her life was any less meaningful without someone. She would pass away from kidney failure.
 At the age of 69.
 Due to her many interests, hooks philosophy. Incapsulate several interesting topics regarding feminism. Hooks provide a critique and her system of feminism. She argues that feminism has primarily lost. Its radical potential and its intimate connection with radical individualism for hooks. Feminism does not mean that women can do whatever they want and have everything. Instead, being a feminist involves undertaking specific daily actions from this. She claims that there are very few.
 Whew, true. Feminists.
 This radical individualism, she believed, was a response to the inability of feminism to find a solid definition. The central problem within feminist discourse has been our inability to either arrive at a consensus about what feminism is or except definitions that could serve as points of unification. Without agreed-upon definitions, we lack a sound foundation for constructing Theory or engaging in it. Overall meaningful practice. Her definition goes beyond the simplistic definition.
 That fighting for equality. Equals feminism, as she writes, implicit in the simplistic definition of women’s Liberation is a dismissal of race and class as factors that, in conjunction with sexism, determine the extent to which an individual will be discriminated against, exploited, or pressed. Thus hooks advocates for feminism for everybody, that includes all those who are exploited. Her definition clearly stated is the movement to end sexism.
 Exploitation and Oppression this definition moves away from the anti-male sentiment of some feminist discourse. She makes clear that the problem is sexism, a view that all genders have been socialized from birth to accept and justify as she writes. Females can be just as sexist as men. And while that does not excuse or Justify male domination, it does not mean that it would be wrong-minded for feminist thinkers to see the movement as simplistically being for women against
 Men, this revolutionary feminism seeks to end sexism and class elitism, and imperialism in total. The movement is concerned with ending Oppression, which he also defines. Quite clearly, being oppressed means the absence of choice. It is the primary point of contact between the oppressed and the oppressor. This line of thinking is used in her stance. On abortion, arguing that granting women control over their bodies. The power to make a choice is a
 A basic feminist principle is whether one wishes to undergo? An abortion is purely a matter of choice, but the choice itself is the principle expanded on a larger scale. This project against Oppression is seen in her views of the patriarchy compared to others. Feminists, hooks do not see patriarchy as the totaling structure of domination; instead, patriarchy functions as a subservient to class structure. She argues that white women tend to see class exploitation as The Offspring.
 The parent’s system of the patriarchy within the feminist movement in the west led to the assumption that resisting patriarchal domination is more legitimate, feminist action than resisting racism and other forms of domination to end patriarchal domination should be of primary importance to women and men globally not because it is the foundation of all other oppressive structures. But because it is that form of domination, we are more likely to encounter it in an ongoing way in everyday life.
 This involves the Insight that we are all participants in perpetuating the system. And so, she abandons the Miss Anders discourse that tends to drive men away from feminism. This inclusivity expands on Hook’s famous contribution to the field. Intersectionality, rather than arguing that all systems of Oppression are rooted in the patriarchy hook season interlocking system of various oppressions that impact people differently based upon where they are located based on class, sex, race, and gender.
 To represent the multidimensionality of these relations, she equips the term imperialist white supremacist capitalist. Patriarchy, what is one tool to combat these systems of Oppression hooks, places, love, and communion above, and beyond anything else? Because of this, she’s. Also, its harshest critic hook sees the female Obsession with love as a product of socialization, in the false assumption that we will find love in the place where femaleness is deemed.
 Unworthy and consistently de-valued. We learn early to pretend that. Love matters more than anything. When in actuality, we know that what matters most, even in the wake of the feminist movement, is patriarchal approval. Feminism requires a new way of thinking about love. Beyond its general advice, stop thinking about it or live as though love does not matter. She sees this as another product of Oppression, the fear of becoming the woman who loves too much for hooks. Love is in
 Hey girl, to human life and to the actualization that allows for Freedom, love is a transformational force demanding accountability and responsibility for nurturing our growth. It is the basic desire to make our survival a shared effort for Bell hooks; she sees this lack of emphasis on love in Progressive circles. An over-preoccupation with material concerns encourages an ethic of domination.
 Ian. She turns back to the words of Martin Luther King, Junior, who preached? The ethic of love is the one true. Hope For Peace and Freedom in the world, King believed that love is ultimately the only answer to the problems facing this nation and the entire planet; I share that belief and the conviction that it is in choosing love and to beginning with love as the ethical foundation for politics, that we are best positioned to transform Society in ways that enhance the collective good.
 I am choosing love. We also choose to live in a community, meaning we do not have to change by ourselves. However, in some Progressive circles, Bell hooks may be poorly received as too forgiving. Nevertheless, I believe that her discourse on love inclusivity and the turning away from the US versus them mentality is a valuable reminder for those who wish to make effective change in a world so bogged down by division, polarization and hatred.
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