Feminism is something that to me, is brushed off in modern society. Most people I know, male and female, think most of the feminist fight is over. However we see multiple examples to day of females being treated differently just because of the gender. One prevalent form is not being paid the same. This even happens in the white house of all places. It took a graphic video of Ray Rice punching his fiancee at the time for him to get the appropriate punishment. Things like these might not be explicitly what Bell Hooks was speaking about in the book but implicitly she is talking about the rights for women, no matter the race, to be afforded the same rights as men and to be treated equally.
Some might point to her article as being race driven but to me the way she patterned her narrative, she was trying her best to avoid that stigma. She made sure not signal out race when she referred to the men in charge. She mentioned women of different races to make her topic balanced and diverse. Trying to make this only abut race, while it is surely a factor, is a narrow view of a larger issue she was trying to address.
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