Able Quote by Bell Hooks

“Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white power would…

— bell hooks

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women understand capitalism–how…

— bell hooks

Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the…

— Loraine Hutchins

“Deconstruction as an educational strategy   Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in Socialist Review,…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“The urge to leap across feminism to "human liberation" is a tragic and dangerous mistake. It deflects us from our real sources of vision,…

— Adrienne Rich

“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”

— bell hooks

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything…

— Polly Toynbee

“When women with class power opportunistically use a feminist platform while undermining feminist politics that helps keep in place a patriarchal system that will…

— bell hooks

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but…

— Jack D. Forbes

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

— Bell Hooks

Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are…

— Bell Hooks