BF199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eugene Lang College The New School For Liberal Arts, Grace Lee Boggs, Radical Feminism
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Inclusion vs. revolution, why universalism is not enough. Hooks, bell feminist theory from margin to centre, chapters 2, 7, 12. Ultimately hooks finds herself tying together all struggles for liberation into a single united from against what she sees as the central antagonism of our contemporary society: class difference, visible most clearly in the issue of poverty. In the course of pursuing this argument, hooks not only calls into question the history of feminism in its various incarnations, but also asks us to reevaluate our commonsense understanding of the meaning of work. The limits of mainstream feminism hooks is critical of the assumptions of what she calls mainstream feminism. She begins by critiquing mainstream feminism"s failure to consider issues of race and class: Feminism is a movement that seeks to make women the equals of men. But men are not all equal to each other.