Talking back : thinking feminist, thinking Black / bell hooks.

In childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedago...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: hooks, bell, 1952-2021
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Edition:New edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: some opening remarks
  • Talking back
  • "When I was a young soldier for the revolution": coming to voice
  • Feminism: a transformational politic
  • On self-recovery
  • Feminist theory: a radical agenda
  • Feminist scholarship: ethical issues
  • Toward a revolutionary feminist pedagogy
  • Black and female: reflections on graduate school
  • On being black at Yale: education as the practice of freedom
  • Keeping close to home: class and education
  • Violence in intimate relationships: a feminist perspective
  • Feminism and militarism: a comment
  • Pedagogy and political commitment: a comment
  • Feminist politicization: a comment
  • Overcoming White supremacy: a comment
  • Homophobia in Black communities
  • Feminist focus on men: a comment
  • "Whose pussy is this": a feminist comment
  • Black women writing: creating more space
  • Ain't I a woman: looking back
  • Writing autobiography
  • To Gloria, who is she: on using a pseudonym
  • Interview
  • Black women and feminism.