{"id":3307,"date":"2012-06-17T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2015-08-27T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T17:37:06","slug":"bell-hooks-has-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/bell-hooks-has-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"bell hooks on Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9795\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/bell-hooks-has-it-right\/feminism-bell-hooks-quote\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/feminism-bell-hooks-quote.jpg?fit=600%2C927&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,927\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"feminism bell hooks quote\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;feminism bell hooks quote&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/feminism-bell-hooks-quote.jpg?fit=600%2C927&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9795\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/feminism-bell-hooks-quote.jpg?resize=600%2C927\" alt=\"feminism bell hooks quote\" width=\"600\" height=\"927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/feminism-bell-hooks-quote.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/feminism-bell-hooks-quote.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFeminism is not\u00a0simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure that women have equal rights with men; It is a commitment to eradicating the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels\u2014sex, race, class to name a few\u2014and a commitment to reorganizing U.S.\u00a0society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion and material desires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014Bell Hooks<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I took a course on gender, race, and class in the media earlier this year; the class itself and, more importantly, my professor left an indelible impact. I used to be afraid of feminism (the connotation), I used to be one of those girls who would inadvertently diminish any opinion by ending with &#8220;<em>&#8230;but I&#8217;m not a feminist or anything<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>But I am.<\/strong> And this quote says it all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. \u00a0 . \u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">x<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">{source <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelhills.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>}\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFeminism is not\u00a0simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure that women have equal rights with men; It is a commitment to eradicating the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels\u2014sex, race, class to name a few\u2014and a commitment to reorganizing U.S.\u00a0society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion and material desires.\u201d \u2014Bell Hooks I took a course on gender, race, and class in the media earlier this year; the class itself and, more importantly, my professor left an indelible impact. I used to be afraid of feminism (the connotation), I used to be one of those girls who would inadvertently diminish any opinion by ending with &#8220;&#8230;but I&#8217;m not a feminist or anything.&#8221; But I am. And this quote says it all. . \u00a0 . \u00a0 . x {source via}\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[869,503,531],"class_list":{"0":"post-3307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-feminism","7":"category-philosophy","8":"tag-bell-hooks","9":"tag-pearls-of-wisdom","10":"tag-quotes","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>bell hooks on Feminism \u2022 A Bit Coquettish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bell HooksI took a course on gender, race, and class in the media earlier this year; 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