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Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism Paperback – Jan. 1 1999

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Examines the experiences of Black women during slavery, explains why the issues of racism and sexism are intertwined, and looks at the role of Black women in the feminist movement

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ South End Press (Jan. 1 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 205 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 089608129X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0896081291
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 181 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.52 x 21.59 cm

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bell hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life, she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is now a Distinguished Professor of English at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of more than seventeen books, including All About Love: New Visions; Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work; Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Art on My Mind: Visual Politics; and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. She lives in New York City.

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Robin Orlowski

Here is where it all began

Reviewed in Canada on April 11, 2001

Those who would dismiss Hook's scholarship and arguments as substandard are truly threatened by the radical observations she makes about the world and black women's relationship to it and in it.
The "Clif Notes" version Hooks has been maligned for by her critics has been practiced openly by white feminists (and predominantly white groups) so I honestly cannot see what the criticism is about unless it is the particular ideas themselves and not the way they are phrased. Hook's work is radical because it forces readers to deal with the less than favorable aspects of American history.
Confronting the real truth about America and the way it has historically treated and maligned women of color (and how they moblized against this) can be a challenging read, but only if the reader comes in with a defensive mind, prepared to discount the work anyway. Individuals with an open mind should love the pages of this now-classic work.
I have always loved this book and it's practical insights on gender roles and a multifaceted approach to reproductive rights. Although Hooks is pro-choice, she reminds us that legalized abortion should be only one aspect of reproductive rights, and freedom from sterilzation abuse and full information on contraceptives is also important. It is a testament to Hooks and other activists that this paradigm has been adopted by the general feminist movement.
True women's liberation involves the liberation of all women from all artificially constructed notions about gender and ethnicity. While we as a nation have historically seen the civil rights movement as primarily for black men, and the feminist movement as being for white women, we have silenced and subjugated the black feminist who has one foot in each of these communities and is going to weave together her own experiences.

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Essbee

Great Book!!

Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2000

I love this book! I think she had done an excellent job on dissecting the classist, racist, sexist structures that have kept black and mixed black women at the bottom of all the racial/class/gender hierarchy. She wrote a chapter about how privileged white women historically used their racial and class privileges to block black and other women of color(mexican, american indian,puerto rican) from access to wealth, power, influence, and especially, upward mobility. They also blocked poor and working class white women(to a lesser extent, for they also have white skin privilege like their sisters)from realizing their potential. Privileged white women just want to preserve their privileges they obtain and keep other women from having them. White feminists tend to protect the status quo, mainly privileged white christian heterosexual men. For example, the Anita Hill case. It have brought far more changes in politics and, once again, white women have benefited more than black women(new 2001 Senate will have 13 women, all white).
As for the antimiscegnation laws, I knew they were originally enacted to prevent white men to marry black women. If a lot of powerful white men were to marry black women and other women of color besides east asian and mexican women, white power will be gone for good. Which was the reason why American media didn't covered the royal wedding of the Prince of Liechtenstein and the black Panamanian woman. They do not like to see black women taking their cherished places as wives of powerful white men. Bell Hooks have done an excellent job on her book. I hope I look forward to see her publishing more of her works soon.

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rainqueen

Few books truly change your life

Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2003

This one changed mine. I urge all young women of color to read this book while you are still in high school or college. Do that for yourself. I urge all other humans to read it as soon as you can. It's the seminal work of bell hooks career, which continues to enlighten and enrich all of us. Unlike some other "classic" works, it deserves the designation, for it remains as timely today as it was at publication.
Her observations are wise. Her grasp of history is absolute. Her ideas stimulate intelligent and loving thought, conversation, and action. Read this book.

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A T Baugh

An effortless, informative and enjoyable read.

Reviewed in Canada on March 29, 2000

I read this book 6 years ago on holiday and I couldn't put it down. I tell you this just to let you know that although the subject matter may appear "heavy", hooks style of writing makes the most complicated theories and intellectual of thoughts on Womanism/Feminism easy to understand and entertaining.
This a thought provoking read. For example her theory on the propagation of miscegenation ( the law that banned interracial marriage and our current negative attidudes towards this today) really made me think. Briefly, she theorised that as white men held the key to power the law was brought in not to protect white women from black men but to stop black women marrying white men. If say a black woman married the President she would also have access to power via her direct access and ability to influence the most powerful man in the world.
hooks as a writer is brilliant, she's inspiring, informative and imaginative. Which must be quite difficult given the subject matter she deals with. Start with Aint I a Woman and you'll go onto read her whole library. Enjoy.

Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2000

I HAD TO READ THIS BOOK FOR A COURSE IN COLLEGE ENTITLED THE BLACK WOMAN EXPERIENCE. PRIOR TO THIS COURSE I DID NOT KNOW bell hooks SINCE THEN I HAVE READ EVERY ONE OF HER BOOKS I COULD FIND. AIN'T I A WOMAN IS POWERFUL READING YOU WILL OPEN IT AND WILL BE ENLIGHTEN ON ONE ASPECT OF BLACK WOMEN'S LIVES.

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AJay

My Mother loves it

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My mother and I have always wanted to read a book together, partly for personal gain and partly because a few years back my dad and I nearly read the entire Harry Potter Series together when I was in grade school and it made her a little jealous. I am 20 and in college (where I read a lot) and she's 50 and employed and has never been a heavy reader(literally reads mostly magazine articles about interior design). I found that we would often have conversations about race, gender, sexuality and the intersection of these identities that we inhabit daily as black women, but the conversation always felt lacking to me, and I'm sure my mother shared in my sentiments. We read the first 28 pages of this book and the conversation was lightening, finally breathing force and life into every argument we'd ever taken a stance on in family discussions and every conversation we had had but never could find concrete words with which to support. In case she wasn't enjoying the read already (which she thoroughly was), my dad walked in 30 minutes after we started with large eyes and a not so subtle wanting look for inclusion, peeping over my shoulder to discover the title of the work that had us shouting, audibly "oohing and ahhing", and even laughing in the next room... and that there was enough to incite an air of commitment to this roughly 200 page read that I've never seen my mother possess approaching anything but a Spring issue of Veranda. We'll be reading a little bit of this book everyday for the next week or two. It is a very fulfilling, enlightening and self-strengthening read. Thank you bell hooks.

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so insightful. everyone should read it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2022

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will read again. this book broke open my mind. filled with well thought out thoughts and evidence to back them.

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Great Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2022

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Every woman should have this in her personal collection

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This book is groundbreaking. My only regret is only reading it now in my thirties.

Bell Hooks honesty is refreshing inspirational.

The conceptualisation and formulation keep you intrigued throughout. I couldn't put in down and it will definitely be a re-read. Very exciting actually read a book that speaks truth in an unapologetic manner.

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