bell hooks writes this in Feminism Is for Everybody (2000), Introduction, pp. viii–ix. The attribution concerns a published argument, not an independently dated speech.
“Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression” bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody (2000), Introduction, pp. viii–ix. Exact published wording.
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Feminism Is for Everybody
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Introduction, pp. viii–ix
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
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In the introduction, hooks describes conversations with people who knew feminism mainly through hostile stereotypes. She offers this definition to shift attention from hostility toward men to the sexist thinking and institutions that women as well as men can perpetuate.
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bell hooks was the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, a cultural critic and teacher whose writing connected race, gender and class. Her books include Ain’t I a Woman and Teaching to Transgress; she made accessible feminist education and the practice of love central subjects of her work.
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hooks, bell. Feminism Is for Everybody. 2000. Introduction, pp. viii–ix.
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