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

informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

This is a review for the audiobook narrated by Adenrele Ojo. Ojo does a fantastic job of narrating this text. As for hooks, she provides a very comprehensive, touching, and deeply insightful look into black feminism — making this text widely accessible. The biggest criticism I would have of “Ain’t I a Woman” is where hooks’ locates power. At times it seems she locates power in the mind of individuals and other times she seems to place it in structure. I found this to cause some passages to contradict others. And while I don’t think this is an issue that all texts focused on intersectionality needs to address — I do think that hooks’ critique and analysis of social change and social movements necessitates a more direct engagement with her epistemological and ontological assumptions. Still, this is a great text and certainly worth the read (or in my case, listen)!
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