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Feminism is for Everybody / bell hooks / prt 2 (Making men/feminist…
Feminism is for Everybody / bell hooks / prt 2
race and gender
we had to acknowledge racism and white priv. : "white women who were
historically, bringing race was a distraction: "in those days white women who were unwilling to face the reality of racism and racial difference accused us of being traitors by introducing race" (57). Historically, the "main point" is a front. It's never one thing, it's liberation for all
"Critical interventions around race did not destroy the women's movement; it became stronger" (58)
"divested of white supremacy" (55) google it: "to deprive" You need to give up/deprive that privilege. It's got Actively working against it to try and throw it off
Ending Violence. domestic violence v. patriarchal violence
places it within the home only. It's a "soft term" "private and less threatening" (62)
"patriarchal violence in the home is based on the belief that it is acceptable for a more powerful individual to control others through various forms of coercive force" (61): broadens the definition of who can commit violence, highlights how women can contribute to partirachal violence; women migh
"much patriachal violence is directed at children from sexist women and men" "For our children will not turn away from violence if it is the only way they know to handle difficult situations" (66)--people as products of enviroment. Socializing that violence is how to keep peoplpe in line/discipline
there's a difference between parenting strictly and making sure they aren't nightmares. But violence maybe isn't our way to end socialized to be violent
Making men/feminist masculinity
"men are socialized by ruling-class groups of men to accept domination in the public world of work and to believe that the priovate world of home and intimate relationships will restore to them the sense of power they equate with masculinity' (64-5)
"failed to attract a large body of males and females" because of "alternative masculinities"
"oppose the use of violence as a means of social control" (66)
promote self-love and self-esteem (70) "What is and was needed is a vision of masculinity where self-esteem and self-love of one's unique being forms the basis of identity"
embracing vulnerability and interdependence. Dude, we need each other. Trivializing self-care
the threat of violence if a sense of privilege
men decide when sexual activity happens, what sexual activity happens, centers and foreground male pleasure (bye lady orgasms we don't care);
first push: choose sexual autonomy (78-9). opt out of state sanctioned marriage, opt out of monogamy;
"language to critique and challenge
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