Ain't I a Woman
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Average rating4.5
A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.
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An eye-opening read: not only to realize that women of color were left out of the feminist movement, but also all the complicated, inextricable ties of both race and socioeconomic oppression that have made the feminist movement prohibitive to black women; it was not able (or willing?) to address these intertwined issues and thereby left a large group of women behind. In order to be a truly powerful affront against the patriarchy, Hooks (logically, powerfully) argues, we need to come together on a considered, united front.
