bell hooks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Feminist theory centering marginalized women and transformative love and consciousness

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bell hooks
bell hooks

American author, professor, and social activist whose Ain't I a Woman and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center are foundational texts of Black feminist thought. Her concept of the 'white supremacist capitalist patriarchy' as an interlocking system of oppression was enormously influential. She wrote with remarkable accessibility and passion.

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