atlantic_reader_wannabe's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
maregred's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, Racism, and Misogyny
Moderate: Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Slavery
seeceeread's review against another edition
informative
💠"In a capitalist, racist, imperialist state there is no one social status women share as a collective group."
hooks thoughtfully examines gender clashes and the role of European imposed sexism in the slave economy. I like the discussion of a "matriarch" : an erroneous label for Black women who actively parent and pursue wage labor ... though the label actually means political, social and economic power. I appreciate that so much of this is about work, both in and beyond the home: gendered work, distribution and access to work, the relationships labor has material and psychological needs.Â
The author shows the dominant culture insists on constituting rigid gender roles constructed such that Black people can never fulfill them. A tension arises from the way hooks skirts either a clear articulation of Black gender or a full denunciation of the flaws of rigid gender roles. Her analysis of the role of sexism in developing gender strictures is essential but incomplete. I wish she got to gender fluidity, instability and/or play. I wish she took more time to discuss how Black women understand and self-actualize gender.
She cites thinkers who resonate more than some in other books I've read in this #YearOfBell, including Angela Davis, Lorraine Hansberry, Audre Lorde and Toni Cade Bambara.
Again, I spy some incredible sections ... as well as some declarations that fall flat or deserve more nuance.
hooks thoughtfully examines gender clashes and the role of European imposed sexism in the slave economy. I like the discussion of a "matriarch" : an erroneous label for Black women who actively parent and pursue wage labor ... though the label actually means political, social and economic power. I appreciate that so much of this is about work, both in and beyond the home: gendered work, distribution and access to work, the relationships labor has material and psychological needs.Â
The author shows the dominant culture insists on constituting rigid gender roles constructed such that Black people can never fulfill them. A tension arises from the way hooks skirts either a clear articulation of Black gender or a full denunciation of the flaws of rigid gender roles. Her analysis of the role of sexism in developing gender strictures is essential but incomplete. I wish she got to gender fluidity, instability and/or play. I wish she took more time to discuss how Black women understand and self-actualize gender.
She cites thinkers who resonate more than some in other books I've read in this #YearOfBell, including Angela Davis, Lorraine Hansberry, Audre Lorde and Toni Cade Bambara.
Again, I spy some incredible sections ... as well as some declarations that fall flat or deserve more nuance.
jokehelldo's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
counterfeitnickel's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
An important foundational text on intersectionality.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Slavery, Racism, and Rape