Feminism In 'Liberation' By Bell Hooks

bell hooks’ piece asks questions of whether or not feminism had made it easier for women to move out of patriarchal settings of terrorism, especially in one’s emotional life. It is also interesting to see how feminism, not just the word, but the idea has entered pop-culture. It seems as if though fashion icons and celebrities want to be labelled that term but the reflection of their actions and the image they present their viewers and ‘followers’ with, almost create a culture where women ‘can have it all’. The same way they (women) talk about male privilege and how men can violate boundaries and do whatever they want to do and get away with it. But this creation buy ‘feminists’ she argues where women can do the above mentioned acts and term it is ‘liberation’ or ‘freedom’ is somewhat acceptable to society. To be a feminist, she suggests, one must take concrete steps to define themselves. …show more content…
She sees one’s home as a place of resistance and how one needs to assess their history and see how much had started at home. This is an indication to the fact that patriarchy knows no gender. From personal experience, my grandmother once told her sons not to cry at her funeral and never express their emotions publicly as that would weaken their status in the Pashtun society. Taking this idea to a broader level, Imani Perry in her book ‘Prophets of the Hood’ explains how hip hop music has been transformed from being the emotional voice of black men to that of masculinity which speaks to their imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal