Book review: Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks
First time read because I was looking for something to read and realized I had downloaded the P.D.F. of this a while ago. It took me eight days. The genre is nonfiction. It was published in 2000.
- I really like the way she explains and frames things. Some harder to grasp concepts are broken down really well. She says a lot (in the book) that it's important for feminist literature to be more accessible, and I think this book succeeds at that.
- It is a little frustrating how very cis it is. As a trans person reading it, you kind of have to decide how this applies to you based on context rather than just the words used which is how cis people would read it. Like "she says woman so obviously she's talking about women" that doesn't fully apply when we're discussing reproductive rights. That doesn't fully apply when we're discussing how patriarchy denies people deemed female the right to be who they are from birth. And sometimes it's completely just reading it from an outsiders point of view, because there is no way to make certain cis concepts fit into a trans persons life. Not a problem with this book specifically, just cis perspectives on gender politics in general.
- Sad how so many of the concepts still apply. Over twenty years after the book was published we're still fighting for fucking abortion rights.
- This book should be way more popular than it is. Required reading before calling yourself a feminist (especially "radfems")
8/10. Here's the Storygraph for it!
