Bell hooks

Question 1

What type of feminist was bell hooks?

Answer 1

Postmodern

Question 2

What were hooks’ key ideas?

Answer 2

Women of colour - she brought the cultural concerns of WOC into the mainstream feminist movement

Intersectionality

Question 3

What is intersectionality?

Answer 3

other factors e.g. race influence gender discrimination cant have a seperate gender identity - The mainstream feminist movement had focused mostly on the plight of white, college educated, m/uc women who had no stake in the concerns of WOC

Question 4

Through intersectionality hooks shifts the focus to the ___________ and their circumstances e.g. a young gay black women

Answer 4

Individual

Question 5

What are hooks’ views on human nature?

Answer 5

Women have many different identities influenced by race, ethnicity etc

Question 6

What are hooks’ views on the state?

Answer 6

White men dominate at the expense of women - the state is a legacy of white imperialist rule - requires reform

Question 7

What are hooks’ views on the economy?

Answer 7

Benefits white UC women & men