Few people stop to think that in a class-free society there is no top' (5). Early on, hooks explains the contradiction of this myth: 'For so long everyone has wanted to hold on to the belief that the United States is a class-free society-that anyone who works hard enough can make it to the top. The lack of attention to class has serious consequences, inuring people to the widening gap between rich and poor. She notes that it has become much easier to talk about gender and race indeed, many events that should be analyzed in terms of class are ascribed instead to gender and, particularly, to race. In Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks directly confronts the 'elephant in the room': the avoidance of acknowledging that America is a class-based society. And in Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner utilizes a Marxist class analytic approach in her explorations of theory and practice. Stewart, uses women's voices to create alternative narratives that help explicate the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Women's Untold Stories, edited by Mary Romero and Abigail J. In Feminism Is for Everybody, hooks's sense of urgency for people to understand what feminism truly is and its importance for liberation is palpable. Where We Stand is a deeply felt rendering that engages us through descriptions of her childhood and her process of coming to class awareness.

In often-evocative prose, bell hooks, utilizes her own life to quickly 'get to the heart of matters,' developing insights and pithy truths that resonate long after her books are put down. Three of these books weave personal experiences with analysis. These four books contribute to those discussions in ways that make class a central focus and help advance liberatory theory and practice. New York: Monthly Review, 2000, 330 pp., $50.00 hardcover, $19.95 paper.Įxplorations of the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and class have constituted some of the most important feminist theoretical work of the past few decades. Women and the Politics of Class by Johanna Brenner. Women's Untold Stories:Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity edited by Mary Romero and Abigail J.

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