bell hooks

Question 1

Background/Books

Answer 1

• Born Gloria Watkins
• Radical fem
• Society is completely disfigured by inequality
• Different groups also suffer e.g. poor
• Book = Feminism is for everyone

Question 2

HN

Answer 2

• Women have mutliple identities and therfore face mutiple forms of oppression
• As a black woman, argued that women like her would achieve equality if black people did as a whole
• Her and black women face problems m/c women do not
• Patriarchy has taught women to hate themselves and view themselves as inferior.

Question 3

The state

Answer 3

• Dominated by white males, reflects and reinforces their dominant position
• Argued that loving communities can overcome inequalities of race, class and gender

Question 4

Society

Answer 4

• Full of complex relationships between minorities
• Argues the power of love can conquer unhealthy relationships, that women need to “unlearn self-hatred”
• Her solution against the patriarchy involves the creation of a more equal society to that the multiple disadvantages women face can be reduced and eliminated. Men must understand the patriarchy they are imposing, while women mustbreak free of the pre-conceptions about themselves

Question 5

Economy

Answer 5

• Women living in poverty have problems m/c women do not face
• LIberation of the poor is an economic and social issue