Bell Hooks

Question 1

What wave of feminism is Hooks?

What type of feminist is Hooks?

Answer 1

Third wave feminist (1952-2017)

Post modernist/ Black Feminism and Intersectionality

Question 2

What does she say about Human Nature?

Answer 2

Women have multiple identities and therefore experience different /multiple forms of oppression (intersectionality)

Question 3

What does she say about the State?

Answer 3

White men dominate the state at the expense of women

Question 4

What does she say about society?

Answer 4

Society is a multifaced arrangement between different minority groups.

Women who have a lower class and of racial minority are oppressed on several levels e.g a black working class woman

Question 5

What does she say about the economy?

Answer 5

Women face different levels of oppression. For example a white middle-class, college educated women will face oppression but are still more liberated than a black working-class woman