Bell Hooks is one of the most well-known feminist figures of today, having written many books on feminism including Feminist Theory From Margin to Center and Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. She is also a well-known academic who has taught at Yale University, Oberlin College, The City College of New York, and is currently a professor at Berea College in Kentucky (Net Industries). In 2013, Hooks wrote an article for a blog called The Feminist Wire called “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In” which was a response to a book called Lean In, which was about feminism and written by Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook, a multi-billion-dollar company. In this article, Bell Hooks makes numerous effective appeals to logos, as well as ethos to effectively
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This shows that Hooks is trustworthy because she is willing to listen to all viewpoints on a topic and is actually willing to give everyone a fair chance by having an open mind.
Though Hooks uses pathos and ethos, the most powerful tool of persuasion Hooks uses to convince her audience of her claim is logos. Throughout the article, Hooks uses logic to …show more content…
For example, one of the earliest examples of this is when Hooks writes that Sandburg “did not turn to any primary sources…” when writing her book (Hooks pg 661). That is to say, Sandburg did not read any previous feminist works before writing her book on the topic. This communicates to a reader that logically, in order to write a book about feminism they must first look at previous feminist works. Secondly, Hooks states that “Sandburg effectively uses her race and class power and privilege to promote a narrow definition of feminism” effectively communicating that her definition of feminism isn’t logically sound, because it misses the essence of feminism, which to Hooks is the promotion of all women, and not just the “privileged” women that Sandburg writes about (Hooks pg 663). Another example can be found when Hooks writes that fighting for equality in the current system, as Sandburg suggests, is not a feminist idea because then women would be surrendering themselves to the “patriarchal structure” (Hooks, 662). She goes on to write that in order to achieve true equality, we must change the very structure we live in in order to achieve true equality. Next, Bell Hooks
This shows that Hooks is trustworthy because she is willing to listen to all viewpoints on a topic and is actually willing to give everyone a fair chance by having an open mind.
Though Hooks uses pathos and ethos, the most powerful tool of persuasion Hooks uses to convince her audience of her claim is logos. Throughout the article, Hooks uses logic to …show more content…
For example, one of the earliest examples of this is when Hooks writes that Sandburg “did not turn to any primary sources…” when writing her book (Hooks pg 661). That is to say, Sandburg did not read any previous feminist works before writing her book on the topic. This communicates to a reader that logically, in order to write a book about feminism they must first look at previous feminist works. Secondly, Hooks states that “Sandburg effectively uses her race and class power and privilege to promote a narrow definition of feminism” effectively communicating that her definition of feminism isn’t logically sound, because it misses the essence of feminism, which to Hooks is the promotion of all women, and not just the “privileged” women that Sandburg writes about (Hooks pg 663). Another example can be found when Hooks writes that fighting for equality in the current system, as Sandburg suggests, is not a feminist idea because then women would be surrendering themselves to the “patriarchal structure” (Hooks, 662). She goes on to write that in order to achieve true equality, we must change the very structure we live in in order to achieve true equality. Next, Bell Hooks