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South End Press Classics Series: Book 5
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In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation.
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Feminist movement continues to be one of the most powerful struggles for social justice taking place in the world today.
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Acknowledgments
SEEING THE LIGHT: Visionary Feminism
1. BLACK WOMEN: Shaping Feminist Theory
2. FEMINISM: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression
3. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FEMINIST MOVEMENT
4. SISTERHOOD: Political Solidarity Among Women
5. MEN: Comrades in Struggle
6. CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON POWER
7. RETHINKING THE NATURE OF WORK
8. EDUCATING WOMEN: A Feminist Agenda
9. FEMINIST MOVEMENT TO END VIOLENCE
10. REVOLUTIONARY PARENTING
11. ENDING FEMALE SEXUAL OPPRESSION
12. FEMINIST REVOLUTION: Development Through Struggle
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Index
Series & Lists edit
This is book 5 of 6 in South End Press Classics Series. (standard series)
Preceded by How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Bell Hooks (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: South End Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0896082229
Page Count: 174
Publisher: South End Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0896082229
Page Count: 174
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 305.420973
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › African American › Hooks, Bell
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Feminist Theory
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health
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