Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Summarize the reasons behind the loss of momentum in the feminist movement. Support your answer with evidence from the book.

The subtitle of Feminism is for Everybody is Passionate Politics. Discuss this subtitle within the context of the various tones hooks employs throughout the text.

In the Introduction, hooks describes the need for a “straightforward, clear book” that explains feminism concisely. Does Feminism Is for Everybody meet that requirement? Be specific in your response.

Are any of hooks’s assertions or arguments controversial or unexpected based on your own experience with feminism? Write a personal response to the issue or claim that you found most surprising or challenging.

hooks cites children’s literature as an important opportunity for feminist education around the eradication of sexist and patriarchal thinking. What kinds of stories might work best for hooks’s purposes within the context of children’s literature?

hooks concludes every chapter with a powerful statement that wraps up the central message of the preceding chapter. Which of these final statements resonates the most with you? Which one resonates the least? Explain in detail.

From lesbian friends and mentors, hooks learned that “women do not need to depend on men for our well-being and our happiness” (95). Is the reverse also true? On whom should women and men depend for their well-being and happiness, if not each other? Support your response with evidence from the book.

At what point or points in the book does hooks express strong emotion? Does this emotion help or hinder hooks’s argumentative style? Would you prefer that hooks employs more emotion? Support your response with evidence from the book.