A review by galacticvampire
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

5.0

In this book, bell hooks proves that you can educate and explain social activism to anyone. Academia is obviously important, but is not the only way to develop a social conscious.

Focusing on introducing the main struggles of feminism under a intersectional optics, bell hooks was, even decades ago, extremely aware of the harm that exclusionism presents. She pulls no punches critiquing the whiteness and class biases of the movement, while maintaining an informative perspective.

"Anti-male factions within the feminist movement resented the presence of anti-sexist men because their presence served to counter any insistence that all men are oppressors, or that all men hate women. It promoted the interests of feminist women who were seeking greater class mobility and access to forms of patriarchal power to polarize men and women by putting us in neat categories of oppressor/oppressed. [...] This focus on men deflected attention from the class privilege of individual feminist activists as well as their desire to increase their class power."