Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center is a 1984 book about
In the preface to the 2015 third edition, hooks states that the women's liberation movement was primarily structured around issues relevant to white women with class privilege, and therefore the book addresses a need for feminist theory that takes into account gender, race and class.[3]
In the first chapter hooks critiques Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) as being a limited one dimensional perspective on women's reality even if it is a useful discussion about the impact of sexist discrimination on a select group of women, college-educated, middle- and upper-class married white women, namely housewives. hooks argues that Friedan does not include the lives, experiences or needs of women without men, women without children, women without homes, non-white women or poor women.[4]
hooks uses the term
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