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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

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5.0

Required reading. Highly recommend to anyone and everyone. Intersectionality should be the standard.

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A difficult topic shown under a harsh almost clinical light.  Everything is so matter of fact, and it is so sad.  I don’t know why I decided to read this.

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5.0

My first, but definitely not my last, bell hooks book. This book is borderline radical in 2023 standards, I cannot imagine the storm it caused when it was published.

bell hooks holds no punches and really evaluates and critiques on Black men and White women and their historical treatment of Black women.

I’ve read several intersectional feminist books but it was really refreshing to read a book entirely dedicated to Black women.

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5.0

‘Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism’ by bell hooks is an important look at how Black women have been forgotten and betrayed by the historically White feminist movement throughout American history. hooks starts by cementing an understanding of how Black women and White women interacted during slavery, especially pinpointing how White women abetted their White husbands and families in the subjugation of Black people. From there, hooks takes us through history and to the contemporary feminist movement, looking at how the feminist movement has never fully accepted and fought for Black women. Throughout the book, hooks also discusses intersections of patriarchy and the Black male experience, exploring how this has directly harmed Black women. 
This is a crucial text, a bedrock text, that I think everyone should read if they are interested in antiracism and understanding the need for intersectionality. hooks writes with such clarity that makes it easy to understand the history of how Black women have been treated in America. I think everyone would benefit from reading this book and that it should be mandatory reading.  

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singingstar89's review against another edition

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Very hard to read emotionally but super easy to understand. Something everyone should read. 

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5.0

I listened to this on audio and I highly recommend that experience. But I also wish that I had a physical copy to annotate because there was A LOT that I wanted to highlight and tab. There was a few things that I knew about but there was a really good conversation that I needed to listen to. I think everyone should read this because it may by eye opening to some, it may not be to others but you will learn ATLEAST SOMETHING from this book.

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4.5

This was really informative and shows what feminism should be like. If you want to learn more about intersectionality and how the women’s rights movement leaded by white women often meant the rich white women’s movement since they didn’t care for BIPOC or others social economic classes. 
Bell Hooks is amazing!! Must read

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