false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648541m/51378.jpg 51378 6 <B>An Interview with bell hooks, author of <I>Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics</I></B><p>SOUTH END PRESS: Your work on radical black feminism has been an inspiration for many young feminists of color, and you yourself were in your early 20s when you wrote your first book, <I>Ain't I a Woman</I>. What differences do you see in the political and cultural climate that young progressive activists face today, compared to when you were formulating your own politics? <p>BELL HOOKS: One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness-in communities, in institutions, among friends. For example, when I was coming to feminist consciousness-as one aspect of my political consciousness-at Stanford University, there was a tremendous buzz about feminism throughout the campus. Women were organizing in the dorms, women were resisting biased curriculum, all of those things. So, it really offered a kind of overall support for coming to consciousness, whereas what so frequently happens now in academic settings is that people feel much more that they don't have this kind of collective support. <p>SEP: What do you think has contributed to that change? <p>BH: The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint. <p>SEP: Could you describe some of the influences on your own politicization? In your writing you have focused very much on your development as a woman, as a writer, and as a critic and political thinker. Could you describe that process? <p>BH: One of the issues that I continually write about is that the words we use to define political positions-whether we talk about being on the left or being feminist-do not mean that people may not have arrived at positions of resistance that could be clearly described by that language <I>before</I> they come to that language. In my case, I've talked a great deal about how growing up in a very patriarchal household was the setting for my development of resistance. But it was not until the organi 2979977 1984 Feminist Theory from Margin to Center total:640|5:274|4:277|3:77|2:11|1:1| 640 2732 1023 42 4 1 false false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 01 13:47:06 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 22 08:36:47 -0700 2008 Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism reveals how much a writer and theorist can develop in just a few years. Where Ain't I a Woman suffered because of underdeveloped points and undertheorized intersections of class with race and gende...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 07:33:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 07:47:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Mar 08 08:15:47 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 08 08:25:27 -0800 2007
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One of the most accessible, well-written works on feminist theory out there. Still relevant after almost 30 years. bell hooks outlines the faults...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=51378