When reading this book, it is evident that hooks narrates it from a place of passion for the lay-feminist. bell hooks knew those days-when women were defined by men’s voices and beliefs as to their capabilities when women could not wear pants when their bodies did not belong to them when they had no voice or vote or power and when clothing, much like the patriarchal conditioning of their time, restrained their bodies and their movements. But feminism is so much more than that it’s about liberation, choices, and having a voice when once we had none of these. Most people associate feminism with man haters, angry women, lesbians, lazy women who think it’s men’s turn to do the dishes and change the diapers. The truth is, most people know nothing about feminism other than the stereotypical tidbits offered to them from third hand sources-like television, comics, and other forms of media consumption. In writing Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, she achieves her earliest objective, which was to create a primer for feminism-for the masses, men and women not associated with feminism or educated in its ideology. Bell hooks is a black feminist, theorist, teacher and writer.
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