Hood Feminism

Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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Hood Feminism

Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

  • 4.7 (3 ratings) ·
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Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord, and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women. Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, Hood Feminism delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. An unforgettable debut, Kendall has written a ferocious clarion call to all would-be feminists to live out the true mandate of the movement in thought and in deed.

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Penguin Books
Pages
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First Sentence

"My grandmother would not have described herself as a feminist."

Edition Notes

Source title: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Classifications

Library of Congress
E185.86.K46 2021, E185.86 .K46 2021

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32014582M
ISBN 10
0525560564
ISBN 13
9780525560562
LCCN
2021302846
OCLC/WorldCat
1241181175

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