Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving....There can be no love without justice.—from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism"

In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice.

hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from divisive barriers but rich with rigorous debate. In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future.

hooks speaks to all those in search of true liberation, asking readers to take look at feminism in a new light, to see that it touches all lives. Issuing an invitation to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism—far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite--is indeed for everybody.

bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, she is Distinguished Professor of English at City College, City University of New York.

• Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
• Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
• We Should All Be Feminists
• Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
• A Guide to Gender (2nd Edition): The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
• Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings
• The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men
• Men Explain Things to Me
• Living a Feminist Life