WOMS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bell Hooks, Gloria Jean, We Should All Be Feminists
22 May 2018
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Lecture 8
Introduction of Feminism
Bell Hooks
• American author, feminist theorist, cultural critic, social activist
• Bell Hooks Institute (2014)
• Wrote Ai’t I A Woa?
• Born in 1952, California, as Gloria Jean Watkins
• Feiis is for Eerod
o Feiis is a oeet to ed seis, seist eploitatio, ad oppressio
o She wants to move beyond anti-male sentiment
o Most people get these ideas from the media – shows reformist feminism
o Reformist v Revolutionary Feminists
▪ Reformist: equality, fixes, change small things (from media)
▪ Revolutionary: change entire system – Bell Hooks (from education)
• Ironic because only privileged people can afford it and are
learning about it
o Feminism disrupted by issues of class and race
▪ Who is excluded from feminism?
• Trans women, women of color, impoverished women, etc.
Allan Johnson
• The Geder Kot
• Patriarchy – paths of least resistance
o E.g. being a silent bystander to a rude joke/harassment
o System – from everyday conversations to practice of war
• Who is involved? – all men and women
o We cannot control whether we participate, only how
Ijeoma A.
• West-Afria oig of age arratie: Coloize This
• 4 commandments of women in her family:
o Her office is the kitchen
o She does chores
o She is accountable for the children
o Allegiance to man in charge first
• Education was her refuge – different ways to advance
• Went to college in America – a different experience
o E.g. Does’t hae to lea up like she did efore
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Born in 1977 in Nigeria
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