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Feminism Is for Everybody

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Feminism Is for Everybody

By: bell hooks
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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What is feminism?

In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, Hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives - to see that feminism is for everybody.

©2014 bell hooks (P)2017 Post Hypnotic Press Inc. African American Studies Americas Gender Studies Social Sciences Specific Demographics United States

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"[Narrator Robin] Miles offers a steady pace - not too slow, not too fast. Her tone is as insightful and poignant as the author's content. Both women take listeners through a historical and present-day journey that conveys the importance of embracing feminism." (AudioFile)

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I returned to Feminism Is for Everybody because I needed re-anchoring. In a moment where patriarchy is being reorganised in plain sight — dressed up as strength, order, or inevitability — bell hooks offers clarity, tenderness, and moral courage.
This book speaks powerfully at the intersection of race, class, and gender. hooks refuses the lie that feminism is about dominance or exclusion. Instead, she names feminism as a conscious choice to love — and patriarchy as a learned system of violence, hierarchy, and harm that women can also uphold if it goes unexamined.
What feels especially urgent today is hooks’ warning against feminism being hollowed out: reduced to aesthetics, individual success, or the uncritical celebration of “women in power.” She reminds us that matriarchy, women-led households, or female authority alone are not cures for sexism unless they actively reject patriarchal values. Liberation requires critique, accountability, and care.
Listening to this audiobook felt like sitting with a teacher who does not flatter, but who believes deeply in our capacity to do better — collectively. hooks writes with generosity, but she does not soften the truth. Feminism, she insists, is for everybody because patriarchy harms everybody.
For women building coalitions, movements, or communities — especially across difference — this book is essential. It awakens something ancient and necessary: a politics rooted in justice, relationality, and love rather than domination.
This is not just a feminist text. It is a guide for living ethically in a violent world — and choosing another way.

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loved it. well balanced, intelligent and thought provoking. highly recommend this one, as relevant today as when first published.

Should be a must read.

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