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Name: Feminist theory
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Author: Bell Hooks

bell hooks’ *Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center* offers a comprehensive analysis of sexual politics and critiques the contemporary feminist movement’s failure to create a mass anti-oppression struggle. She contends that feminism’s foundations have ignored the complex realities of women on society’s periphery. By urging a redefinition of feminist theory that embraces marginalized voices, hooks challenges the movement to become truly transformative. The book examines themes of race, gender, and social marginality within the United States and calls for a renewed, inclusive direction for feminist scholarship and activism.

First publish date: 2000

Genre: Science/Biology

Authors: Bell Hooks

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