feminist theory from margin to center sparknotes

This included developing an influential analysis of how these interlocking power structures converge to produce and perpetuate the dominance of imperialist-white-supremacist-capitalist-heteropatriarchy.įundamentally, if we are only committed to an improvement in that politic of domination that we feel leads directly to our individual exploitation or oppression, we not only remain attached to the status quo but act in complicity with it, nurturing and maintaining those very systems of domination. In case it helps – bell hooks asé, blog post by adrianne maree brown, 2021Įxploring bell hooks’ contributions to three social justice concepts Intersecting structures of powerīell hooks often wrote about how race, class, capitalism, and gender function together as interdependent power-structures.bell hooks, We Will Always Rage On With You, article for Truthout by George Yancy, 2021.What bell hooks taught us, the Giro, 2021.The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks, article in The New Yorker by Hua Hsu, 2021.

bell hooks passes, leaving legacy of activism and progress, article for ArtCritque by Brandon Lorimer, 2021.

Memorial notice for bell hooks in the Daily Nous, 2021.

For bell hooks, beloved scholar, remembrance article for the Gay City News by Nicholas Boston, 2021.

We’ll Never Be Done Learning From bell hooks, article for The Cut by Bindu Bansinath, 2021.

Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of “Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy” video report by Democracy Now, 2021.

Tributes flow for ‘giant, no nonsense’ feminist author, educator, activist and poet bell hooks, ABC News (Australia), 2021.

To help contextualise the broader impact of these and other ideas within bell hooks’ 40+ books and other writings, I’ve included a selection of additional resources, sorted by type:īut first, a sample of memorials to honour the range and depth of appreciation for bell hooks’ contributions to social justice movements:

Practising love, a verb, is a pathway to justice.

Of these, my reflection focuses on her contributions to three concepts that have been influential in social justice movements:

Many of the ideas articulated by bell hooks have resonated widely. To situate those ideas, bell hooks drew on academic scholarship and popular culture as well as her relevant personal perspectives: especially as a Black woman living in America as an educator and activist and as the first in her family to gain a university education. Presentations, interviews, & conversationsīell hooks (1952-2021) chose this name, and styled it in lower-case, in an effort to focus attention on the substantive ideas within her writing, rather than her identity as an isolated individual.Resource collections featuring bell hooks.Contextualising bell hooks’ contributions.Practising love, as a verb, is a pathway to justice.Exploring bell hooks’ contributions to three social justice concepts.

Feminist theory from margin to center sparknotes