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Apr 05, 2009 19:01

Reading Bell Hooks ( Read more... )

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antipixie_karee April 6 2009, 00:42:44 UTC
She spoke at Denison University recently. Did you happen to go? I was so upset about missing that.

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ayearalone April 7 2009, 10:52:48 UTC
No, I didn't even know she spoke there. I always miss the really cool things. Last year OSU held a women's studies conference, it's the only time they've had one in the four years I've been here and I was in Japan for it.

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ayearalone April 7 2009, 10:59:49 UTC
You can read the full article if you want. I think you will like what Hooks has to say. There's also a quote in the article by another feminist who talks about when theory becomes ideology and then that ideology is used to censor new theories. It's true on so many levels. Biological essentialism has become an ideology in some areas of feminism (Janice Raymond, Germain Greer, womyn born womyn only spaces).

Also, its pretty sad that though the book was written in the 80s we are still battling the same stuff that Hooks talks about within feminism.

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ayearalone April 8 2009, 03:58:49 UTC
Parts of it are always progressing. People always have different concepts of the "next step" and the exact right way to do things.

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