FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY: Passionate Politics

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Tujuan dasar feminisme visioner adalah menciptakan strategi-strategi untuk mengubah nasib semua perempuan dan meningkatkan kekuatan pribadi mereka." (hlm. 152) Scritto in modo chiaro e comprensibile - aspetto programmatico della produzione di bell hooks, insegnante prima che attivista, che me la fa amare visceralmente -, tocca tutti i temi caldi del femminismo intersezionale senza vacillare mai per timore o parsimonia. È un libriccino coraggiosamente belligerante e rincuorante.

Every chapter contained some snide asides or bitter remarks on people hooks claims aren't "real feminists", anyone who doesn't align with hooks' own personal opinion was sidelined. She often bemoaned the fact that these fake feminist women are often the ones who get the media attention and become the face of the movement, like, honey??? are you aware that you are one of the most famous feminists in the world??? Why are you so bitter? It was hella weird and unprofessional, and not the right place for a book that claims to be a primer for basic feminist theory. Right at the beginning the author states that the book's goal is to provide an accessible "guide" to feminism for all.

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Pertama aku mau bahas faktor dari segi bahasa ya. Meskipun ini bukan alasanku DNF buku ini, tapi ini menjadi salah satu alasanku untuk memberikan rating rendah. Hooks nos habla del sexismo, machismo, sororidad, racismo, lesbofobia, transfobia y lucha de clases dentro del propio feminismo. Es uno de los libros más libres y llenos de claridad que he leído. Y es que, como señala continuamente, primero tenemos que deconstruirnos nosotras para después poder destruir, juntas, el sistema patriarcal, racista, lesbófobo, tránsfobo y clasista, en el que las mujeres no se ayudan, se atacan. Creo que esto es algo bastante esencial y que sigue siendo necesario a estas alturas. Hasta que no aprendamos a que se tienen que atacar los discursos, no las personas. Hasta que no aprendamos a que todas tenemos los mismos derechos y todas tenemos una voz. Hasta que no aprendamos a que nuestras diferencias nos hacen más fuertes, no más débiles. Hasta entonces, habrá que seguir luchando no solo contra el sistema, también contra los discursos dentro del feminismo. Also, while I appreciate the personal and historical context, one has the feeling she is often airing personal complaints against the wrong version of feminism taking over. Her complaints about feminism are kinda hard to cover in a brief review. She makes some interesting points, but still seems to harbor a lot of resentment toward those feminists who have it all wrong (according to her). This would be the substance of an interesting essay, and her personal experiences within feminism would make for an interesting memoir. But then that brings us to the issue of, is this really the right context?

Setidaknya sudah tiga buku dengan buku ini yang kubaca perihal perempuan dan feminisme. Semakin ke sini, aku semakin sepakat dengan pemikiran-pemikiran feminisme yang ternyata salah-kaprah disampaikan oleh media massa sehingga membuat orang awam melipir lebih jauh dari konsepsi dasar feminisme. As a consequence, by not providing any material that would support her statements the author can (and does) disguise her personal opinions as facts a bit too often for my liking. She builds questionable arguments and throughout the book develops the problem of stating things that are historically inaccurate. As a scholar I find it unacceptable. Aku tidak kaget bila ada yang memaktubkan buku ini sebagai kitab para feminis, terutama bagi mereka yang radikal. Dan simaklah pernyataan berikut. Most citizens of this nation still do not understand the link between male domination and male violence. And that failure to understand is underscored as our nation is called upon to respond to violent murders of family members, friends, and schoolmates by young males of all classes."Buku ditutup dengan bab feminisme visioner yang bisa dilakukan oleh semua orang termasuk laki-laki beserta langkah apa saja yang bisa dilakukan. Ajaibnya, buku yang ditulis sekitar 2 dekade lalu ini masih relevan hingga sekarang.

Selesai baca ini, aku ingin mengulik lebih jauh tentang feminisme terutama dalam konteks pemikiran dan praktiknya di Indonesia. Ada satu buku incaran yang sudah kucatat yang ditulis oleh seorang Indonesia. i remembered disliking this book quite a bit when i first read it ten years ago. but because i still respected hooks as a theorist & a writer then, i charitably assumed that the problem was the structure--that hooks just wasn't cut out to with elementary introductory primers. she has historically shone as a thinker when writing about the intersections between race & feminism, & her writing on this topic has not always been simple & easy to digest. so i thought perhaps having to wander so far into a different territory necessitating a radically different authorial voice, hooks struggled. Butuh beberapa waktu untuk menyelesaikan buku 160 halaman ini. Selain begitu serius membicarakan paham sosialisme yang satu ini, buku ini menjelaskan perintilan-perintilan kecil tentang pemikiran dan praktik feminisme. Dengan begitu, pembaca seakan-akan diajak menguliti feminisme. Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." I love this definition...I love it because it so clearly states that the movement is not about being anti-male. It makes it clear that the problem is sexism. And that clarity helps us remember that all of us, female and male, have been socialized from birth on to accept sexist thought and action. As a consequence, females can be just as sexist as men. And while that does not excuse or justify male domination, it does mean that it would be naive and wrong-minded for feminist thinkers to see the movement as simplistically being for women against men. To end patriarchy (another way of naming the institutionalized sexism) we need to be clear that we are all participants in perpetuating sexism until we change our minds and hearts, until we let go of sexist thought and action and replace it with feminist thought and action." C'è dentro tutto: la storia del movimento, i suoi ideali, le sue guerre intestine e persino i suoi controsensi. Soprattutto, però, il conforto e la speranza, particolarmente apprezzati, io credo, in questi nuovi tempi di guerra.anti-choice advocates, like the ones that hooks condemns as being "anti-woman, & therefore anti-feminist" have been making a lot of in-roads in trying to convince women that they may suffer long-term negative helth effects from having abortions. they have created the false psychological condition known as "post-abortion stress syndrome" (rightfully unrecognized by psychological authorities) & have falsely linked abortion to breast cancer & infertility. these are all scare tactics designed to intimidate women out of pursuing abortion. there is no legitimate medical evidence to support them. it is sad & enraging to see hooks repeat these myths, especially in a book aimed primarily at young or otherwise inexperienced-in-feminism people who may not be privvy to feminist attempts at countering these lies. this is where the book lost me. repeat abortions do not in fact cause any health problems. there is some question of whether repeated dilation of the cervix can cause issues like cervical softening or perhaps scarring in extreme cases. but the manifestations of these issues with repeat abortions obviously pale in comparison to the health risks & long-term health impact of bearing repeat babies. & the advent of earlier pregnancy detection & greater abortion access means that women are able to seek abortions earlier in their pregnancies, when less cervical dilation is necessary to complete the procedure. She summarizes the inception and journey of the feminist movement through the decades - how it made its first proper appearance (second wave) in the U.S. in the 60s with the waves of bra-burning (she is not against bra-burning btw), angry women who had major grievances against a domestic arrangement where they held little to no power, how initially they believed 'feminism to be the theory and lesbianism the practice', how it has undergone gradual improvement to evolve into the polished academic discipline that it is today, how it was seen as an anathema in the past and how it continues to face a steadily growing list of challenges - apathy of mass media being a major one. She deftly interweaves feminism with the idea of politics, class struggle, physical beauty, love, religion, marriage, reproductive rights, parenting, masculinity and race to present before us a realistic picture of what truly internalizing its precepts can mean for us and our future. We have not amassed enough testimony to let the world know the sexual pathologies and horrors women endured prior to the existence of dependable birth control. It evokes fear within me just to imagine a world where every time a female is sexual she risks being impregnated, to imagine a world where men want sex and women fear it. In such world a desiring woman might find the intersection of her desire and her fear. We have not amassed enough testimony telling us what women did to ward off male sexual advances, how they coped with ongoing marital rape, how they coped with risking death to deal with unwanted pregnancies. We do know that the world of female sexuality was forever changed by the coming of feminist sexual revolution." As long as it is, much more research should have gone into the book; it should have relied far less on the crutch of Hooks' own experience, and more on quotes from other people. It seems as if this entire book was banged out in her study one afternoon, presenting the entire rest of the movement as nameless and faceless groups who all fit into one of several molds. (The early "radical" movement, the later "classist white-supremacist" movement, or the splintered "male hating" movement.) This book would make it appear that Hooks is the only person in all of feminism who preaches love, inclusion, and education for all.

In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice.Hematnya, feminisme ada untuk membuka dan menawarkan opsi kepada perempuan dengan upaya-upaya mengakhiri seksisme, diskriminasi gender, dan menciptakan kesetaraan. If I had been a newcomer the aforementioned issues would have immediately turned me off and I'd have abandoned this book. As someone who is more familiar with feminism I finished it out of spite. Today in academic circles much of the most celebrated feminist theory is written in a sophisticated jargon that only the well-educated can read. Most people in our society do not have a basic understanding of feminism; they cannot acquire that understanding from a wealth of diverse material, grade school-level primers, and so on, because this material does not exist. We must create it if we are to rebuild feminist movement that is truly for everyone." She merely chooses to use 'white supremacist capitalist patriarchy' as a refrain so as to hammer this information into our brains. Yes the recurrence of this phrase gets dull after a while, yes it is somewhat annoying but no it is not irrelevant. Especially since bell hooks seems to support the branch of feminism which brings the concept of equality for everyone (including homosexuals) in all walks of life - sexual, economic, social and religious - under its envelope.