Comments on: Ain’t I a Woman: black women and feminism by bell hooks http://www.gwytherinn.com/2008/01/29/aint-i-a-woman-black-women-and-feminism-by-bell-hooks/ It is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tiv http://www.gwytherinn.com/2008/01/29/aint-i-a-woman-black-women-and-feminism-by-bell-hooks/#comment-51 Tiv Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:05:16 +0000 http://www.gwytherinn.com/2008/01/29/aint-i-a-woman-black-women-and-feminism-by-bell-hooks/#comment-51 "while white feminists were working to liberate women and felt the key to this was integration into the workforce, they were neglecting the fact that black women had been working outside the home for decades." I've been working that over in my head. Ironically, it gave me some relief, since a lot of feminist literature didn't resonate with me when I read it in school (one reason, arguably, is that I wasn't as smart or vested in women's rights at the time). But to see that it's OKAY if it didn't address your issues...yeah. I like that. Thank you for the review. I like basic books for subjects I don't know much about. Mom's a big feminist literature reader...and very critical of most of it (I suspect because she was not a middle-class, educated city gal...she was dirt poor, country-bred, and a tomboy)...I'm going to see if she's read it. “while white feminists were working to liberate women and felt the key to this was integration into the workforce, they were neglecting the fact that black women had been working outside the home for decades.”

I’ve been working that over in my head.

Ironically, it gave me some relief, since a lot of feminist literature didn’t resonate with me when I read it in school (one reason, arguably, is that I wasn’t as smart or vested in women’s rights at the time). But to see that it’s OKAY if it didn’t address your issues…yeah. I like that. Thank you for the review. I like basic books for subjects I don’t know much about. Mom’s a big feminist literature reader…and very critical of most of it (I suspect because she was not a middle-class, educated city gal…she was dirt poor, country-bred, and a tomboy)…I’m going to see if she’s read it.

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