Feminism Is For Everyone By Bell Hook

Given these points, both women agree that there is a problem with equality in our society. They understand that not as many women are being recognized and are in positions of power. However, both women do not address the same reasons why. As Sandberg puts the reason for the lack of female leadership in corporate jobs and careers is because the lack of motivation that comes from the women in the workforce. This is so from fear of risking stability of finance, work, and home-life or contentment with them all. Hooks instead believes that our society that is dominated by white supremacist capitalist patriarchy only allows for certain white privileged females such as Sandberg to rise to power, enabling her to push a faux feminism agenda that only

Finally, hooks used the strategy of cause and effect in her writings. She writes “Since our society continues to be a primarily ‘Christian’ culture, masses of people continue to believe that God has ordained that women be subordinate to men in the domestic household.” (hooks, pg2) By writing this, she effectively analyzes the cause of the problems, and why our culture continues to be sexist. For those who have scientific minds, this statement carries

Hooks’ monograph was written to inform people how feminism was not just for women, but also for men. For she illustrated her thesis in the introduction when she said, “Come closer and you will see: feminism is for everybody,” meaning that men and women should

Within the excerpts of writing Sheryl Sandberg and bell hooks offer us, their focal point is feminism. Although this is the case, their reasonings for being a feminist are quite different. Sandberg focuses on rising in the career field as a woman, and hooks argues against her writing because she has a narrow definition of being a feminist. There are strong arguments for either side as to which is more correct.

“If my generation was too naïve, the generations that have followed may be too practical. We knew too little, and now girls know too much.” (Sandberg. Pg. 646) In the past, the call for women’s rights was heated as much as it was alive; many women today believe that they no longer need feminism in their lives. The misconception that feminist ideals are outdated has lead modern women to fall short in their desire to accomplish more. Sheryl Sandberg refuels feminist goals in the article “Lean In: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid.” She addresses lack of females in the work force, as well as, the way society prompts boys compared to girls. Bell Hook, in contrast, provides a deeper understanding of feminist ideals, along with, an in depth analysis of Sandberg’s work. The articles written by Bell Hook and Sheryl Sandberg express each woman’s perspective on modern feminism; although they both call for action, Sandberg focuses on the inequality between the sexes, while Hook broadens the overall argument to include topics such as race, sexuality and class equality.

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known as, her pen name bell hooks, is an American writer who is best known for her focus on feminism and black women’s perception in America. Hooks lived through segregation in the south and as a result has become a successful writer and professor, speaking and writing about her childhood and views. She is from Hopkinsville, KY and adopted her pen name from her great-grandmother. I found interesting when reading about her that she chose to use lower case for her name, to put focus more on her work, rather than the person behind it. (Biography) She is the writer of a book named “where we stand: CLASS MATTERS”, which is a book she wrote to explain her views on social class and how based on her life experiences she

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.” The quote by Gloria Steinem explains what women all around the world want in their lifetime, justice.

Directions: Careful and critical reading of bell hooks’ Feminism is for Everybody. After reading your assigned chapters, answer the following questions thoroughly before your class presentation and submit through blackboard.

Feminism offers the same things to a man as it does to a woman. After reading this article I have found out that feminism effects every aspect of our lives whether it be how we learn to the pay we get for the same work. It is just not a woman thing it is a social and human issue. According to Bell, feminism is aimed to end sexist oppression of all human regardless of what their race, gender and social status are.

Feminism to many people can mean many different things. Feminism is the belief in equality of the sexes in social, political, and economic aspects. The article “Lean In: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid” by Sheryl Sandberg as well as the article “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In” by Bell Hooks go hand in hand on the topic of feminism. Each author shows their own views on feminism some of the views being similar in comparison and some being total opposites. Bell Hooks article points out both the downfalls and the good aspects that Sheryl Sandberg said on this topic.

It’s a movement to stop stereotypes and labels in this patriarchal system existing in our society, and the only way to do so is if both men and women fight for the feminist cause. Hooks also explains what feminism does not support. It does not support only privileged, upper-class women to succeed in the patriarchal society, but rather focuses on the improvement of all women despite their

Feminism according to Hooks, “movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.” Hooks likes her stated definition of feminism, because “it doesn’t imply that men were the enemy. by naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter”. If you have sexist thinking you have a problem both women and men can be sexist. According to Hooks many people believe feminism to be; anti-men, women seeking to be equal to men, equal pay for equal work, white and privileged. These people often learn about feminism through mass media and do not believe feminism to be a sexist problem, but to understand feminism “it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism” (Hooks,37) a majority of people do not understand what sexism

The question is: how do we make change to years, and year of conditioned notions? I feel, that as a male I can strive to provide equality in every day actions. These actions can take place at school, the work place, with family, etc. Similarly to this conversation, Bell Hooks believes that the way to make change is to not let it stop with academia. She feels that if feminist theory only lure’s to the academic world, then it won’t impact society the way that it should. Hook wants it to reach out to men, the poor, the rich, different races, and more. She wants it to be in the hands of the many. Again, as this conversation started about how philosophers viewed woman and how to make change, Hooks is suggesting that in order to make change with oppression of woman, then it is necessary to branch out this theory of feminism. Coincidently, Hook critiques Irigaray (or all French Feminist for that matter) for focusing too much on appealing to woman and not enough on the rest of the

In her book, Feminism is For Everybody Bell battles all presumptions of her faultfinders that she is against male by setting her contention in her title. for the most part in sections 10,11 and 12, she concentrates on race and sexual orientation alongside feminist masculinity. Although these perspectives assume a noteworthy part in tending to the genuine requirement for women 's liberation. There is an apparent, struggle in the way the state has conditioned society to think and how minorities and are so hesitant to ascend against the shunned thought of adding to their own oppression since they are centered around the name of "feminist theory" expecting that it is the embodiment of criticizing men.

According to Bell Hooks, Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. Sexism refers to the unfair treatment of people due to their sex especially to women. Most women are facing the problem of sexism because there are no room for high- paying skilled labor opened to them due to the problem of gender socialization. It was not gender discrimination or sexist oppression that kept privileged women of all races from working outside the home, it was the fact that the jobs that would have been available to them would have been the same low-paying unskilled labor open to all working women. (Hooks, 2000). Women have been made default pursuers of unskillful labor which is a disadvantage for women but to the advantage of the “men” in the