This revolution's cardinal condition is a form of theoretically informed practice that derives its inspiration from the lived experience of those who have stood for too long on feminism's periphery. The subtitle of Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center anticipates the call to revolution that bell hooks expressly advances in the book's final chapter and whose goal is unequivocal: “Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression” (1984, 26). Together, they demonstrate the vitality of work now being done in this area, as well as the ongoing salience of bell hooks's admonition that any form of feminism that ignores the topic of race is unworthy of the name.Īs a quick refresher for those who have not read hooks's 1984 book for some time or who have never learned from this significant intervention in feminist scholarship, we offer the following abbreviated overview: Thirty-five years later, in the spirit of this quotation, we invite you to re-read a work that has inspired so many and to ask how, in light of the argument advanced there, we might think today about gender, feminist theory, and the politics of race.įollowing the symposium, we offer reviews of five recent books that address this same theme. In the preface to her 1984 book, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, bell hooks wrote: “Although feminist theorists are aware of the need to develop ideas and analysis that encompass a larger number of experiences, that serve to unify rather than to polarize, such theory is complex and slow in formation” (xviii).
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