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By Mikki Kendall
I’m a feminist. Mostly.
I’m an asshole. Mostly.
All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few.
Meeting basic needs is a feminist issue. Food insecurity, the living wage and access to education are feminist issues. The fight against racism, ableism and transmisogyny are all feminist issues.
White feminists often fail to see how race, class, sexual orientation and disability intersect with gender. How can feminists stand in solidarity as a movement when there is a distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?
Insightful, incendiary and ultimately hopeful, Hood Feminism is both an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux and also clear-eyed assessment of how to save it.
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All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few.
About the Author
Reviews
Required reading for any feminist, Kendall explores why mainstream feminism neglects to see how race, class, sexual orientation and disability intersects with gender with a clear-eyed assessment of how to fix it ― Evening Standard, The best books to look forward to in 2020
The American author’s never-more-timely collection tackles topics from gun violence to the way in which white women make feminism all about them ― i paper, Summer Reading Picks 2020
My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist (as I do) will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect … It’s long overdue that we drop our defenses, listen to her arguments carefully, and then change our entire way of thinking and behaving … Essential reading — Elizabeth Gilbert
In Hood Feminism, author and activist Mikki Kendall looks at how feminism is neglecting marginalised communities, and what can be done to challenge and confront those inequalities from within the feminist movement ― Stylist, The 29 best non-fiction books out in 2020
Poignant and page-turning … Marks Kendall as an original addition to the black feminist canon ― AnOther
Blistering … A fresh new and necessary Black voice in feminist literature ― Refinery29
It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it. — Pandora Sykes ― The High Low
Compelling and timely … A searing indictment of feminism, how to modernise it and ultimately, how to save it. ― Cosmopolitan, Books by black and POC authors you’ll be reading in 2020
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