CONTENTS Copyright 2000 by Gloria Watkins Cover design by Ellen P.Shapiro Cover illustration by Laura DeSantis,Artville INTRODUCTION Any properly footnoted quotation of up to 500 sequential words Come Closer to Feminism vii may be used without permission,as long as the total number of words quoted does not exceed 2,000.For longer quotations or for a 1.FEMINIST POLITICS greater number of total words,please write to South End Press for Where We Stand 1 permission. 2.CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING A Constant Change of Heart 7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hooks,Bell. 3.SISTERHOOD IS STILL POWERFUL 13 Feminism is for everybody:passionate politics/Bell Hooks. 4.FEMINIST EDUCATION p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. FOR CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS 19 ISBN0-89608-629-1-ISBN0-89608-628-3(pbk.) 1.Feminist theory.2.Feminism-Philosophy.3.Feminism- 5.OUR BODIES,OURSELVES Political aspects.4.Sex discrimination against women.I.Title. Reproductive Rights 25 HQ1190.H672000 6.BEAUTY WITHIN AND WITHOUT 31 305.4201-dc21 00-036589 7.FEMINIST CLASS STRUGGLE 37 South End Press,7 Brookline Street,#1,Cambridge,MA 02139 060504 789 8.GLOBAL FEMINISM 44 Printed in Canada 9.WOMEN AT WORK 48Copyright © 2000 by Gloria Watkins Cover design by Ellen P. Shapiro Cover illustration by Laura DeSantis, © Artville Any properly footnoted quotation of up to 500 sequential words may be used without permission, as long as the total number of words quoted does not exceed 2,000. For longer quotations or for a greater number of total words, please write to South End Press for permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hooks, Bell. Feminism is for everybody: passionate politics / Bell Hooks. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89608-629-1 - ISBN 0-89608-628-3 (pbk.) 1. Feminist theory. 2. Feminism - Philosophy. 3. Feminism - Political aspects. 4. Sex discrimination against women. 1. Title. HQl190 .H67 2000 305.42'01 - dc21 00-036589 South End Press, 7 Brookline Street, #1, Cambridge, MA 02139 06 05 04 7 8 9 Printed in Canada CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Come Closer to Feminism 1. FEMINIST POLITICS Where We Stand 2. CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING A Constant Change of Heart 3. SISI:ERHOOD IS STILL POWERFUL 4. FEMINIST EDUCATION FOR CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS 5. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES Reproductive Rights 6. BEAUTY WITHIN AND WITHOUT 7. FEMINIST CLASS STRUGGLE 8. GLOBAL FEMINISM 9. WOMEN AT WORI( Vll 1 7 13 19 25 31 37 44 48