MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bell Hooks, Transphobia, Ableism
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Feminist analysis: bell hooks, american author, feminist, and social activist, her writing focuses on the interconnectivity of race, capitalism, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. "feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. " Instead, these forms of oppression interrelate, creating a system of oppression that reflects the "intersection" of multiple forms of discrimination. "advertising is the most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history and its cumulative cultural and political effects, unless very quickly checked, will be responsible for destroying the world as we know it. " "in the process of achieving this, the masters of the advertising system, global corporations bent on nothing but private profits, will be responsible for the deaths of millions of people, mostly non-western. " "in addition the peoples of the world will be prevented from achieving true happiness.
