About this title: Bell Hooks's first book, written when she was 19 and published about 10 years later. She has said that feminist criticism at the time did not value the black female perspective, and writings on the black experience did not value the female perspective. Her intention was to change that.
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Description: Good. 1999-Paperback-Cover shows minor shelf wear. ---Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780896081307ISBN:0896081303
Description: Good. Paperback converted into a hardbound by a library system. Photos: We now have a scanner in-shop and can provide you with a picture of this item if you do not currently see one. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN-13:9780896081307ISBN:0896081303
Description: Very Good. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. PO name and inscription on title page. Has some light edge and corner wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: South End Press [1991], Boston
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780896081291ISBN:089608129X
Description: Good. Later [9th] printing. Pictorial wrappers, 205+ pages, selected bibliography, index. Otherwise Near Fine copy [spine cocking] with odd patterns of dampstaining to the first few interior pages. read more
Edition: 5th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: South End Press, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780896081284ISBN:0896081281
Description: Near Very Good. 5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback book. White lettering on the black spine with an illustrated cover. Ain't I A Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the recent women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism. 205 pages. 5th printing. Edgewear and soil. Underlining and markings, writing on front innerboard, owner's signature, and bookplate. Near Very Good condition. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 10/1981
ISBN-13:9780896081291ISBN:089608129X
Description: Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Trade pb Unknown printing. 0. 54" x 8. 49" x 5. 37". read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: South End Pr
Date Published: 1999-07-30
ISBN-13:9780896081291ISBN:089608129X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780896081291ISBN:089608129X
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780896081291ISBN:089608129X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. good condition clean pages shelver cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 205 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780896081291ISBN:089608129X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 205 p. Audience: General/trade. Book in very good condition with FAST SHIPPING! Wear to cover. read more
"Although far better as an analysis than her newer works have been, this book falls short of something academic. although it reads like a college term-paper, as far as the history and the conclusions reached within the book, these too seem to be collegiate. they appear to be nothing more than rehashed and regurgitated feelings of professors and other authors, or when she is speaking in her own voice, nothing more than mere outrages and rhetorical questions. it is a fault of bell hooks that she seems to be writing for no one but herself. as if she were the only audience, the only mind, the only person that mattered. i would have to say that the book is something to read for a few of the points on sexuality in the early america's, but to also read other opposing viewpoints and to do some hard research of your own in order to separate the emotion from the fact."
"This should be required reading for all white people.
bell hooks is incredibly intelligent and articulate, and this book is really well researched. It's over 20 years old, so some of the stuff may now be considered Racism 101 for those of you who are intensely involved in anti-racist work, but even still, even if she was describing a situation I already knew about, her examples were often new to me. And there was lots of information in here that I didn't fully know, or hadn't heard articulated quite so clearly before.
Each of the five chapters can pretty much stand alone, which does make for some repetitiveness, but this is stuff we could all afford to have pounded into our heads, anyways. As the title indicates, the book is mostly about the intersection of racism and sexism, the unique situation this puts black women in (and has put/kept them in since slavery), and the major problems with the feminist movement, which is largely driven by and for the benefit of middle class white women. (As a bonus, you also get to learn that Amiri Baraka is a sexist douche.) A great, great book, that had me at turns both furious and goosebumpy. There is really no excuse for anyone who claims to believe in/support equality not to read this."
"This book made me think Alice Paul was not so great. That those iron jawed angels were not so great. Bell Hooks speaks to the idea that all the women are white and all the blacks are men. And that black woman have been consistently devalued, overlooked, omitted. She talks about the feminist movement of the 60's and 70's. How the women's movement was the white women's movement. A desire for white woman to get on even ground with white men. She talks about the problems of movment's that exist within the patriarchal, imperialist, capatalist system. How movement's for change within the system cannot be successful because someone, black women are always at the bottom of the ladder. And everyone else inciting change is just making enough waves to not be at the bottom. She talks about shelters and other types of bandaids that do nothing to change the overall plight of black women and future generations. She talks about the black power movement and how it is an exercise in partiarchy and how all of the oppressions are connected. That racism cannot be the only oppression to work on because it is the most imporant. That racism and sexism are linked, and not until there is a dialogue between them can all people esp. black women move towards freedom. Hooks is constantly questioned, why are you a feminist? And she believes a women's movement for all women can exist. She gives me hope to believe in this. I am showing no action."
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