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The Liberating Marriage and Partnership chapter (Feminism is for everybody) by Bell Hooks we are given an introduction into the feminist movement with regards to marriage and partnership. Hooks brings her view on the role of feminism and marriage into light as she walks us through the early feminist movement and the impact it had on marriages and partnerships. She argues that man’s view on women must change in order for the patriarchal view on marriage to reform. First of all, one of the most…

sexual intercourse without the emotional attachment of a relationship (Kelly, 2012). The author of “Sexism in Practice: Feminist Ethics Evaluating the Hook Up Culture”, Connor Kelly believes that rape culture is prevalent on college campuses because of the prevalence of hook-up culture on campuses as well (2012). Due to the ambiguity of the term hook up - it leaves a very open window of interpretation for two parties involved in a sexual…

The purpose of this study is to explore how college students talk about risks when a friend is about to participate in hooking up, and analyze the gendered differences in these risks and how it socially controls men and women. The authors explore the physical, emotional and social risks that many college women experience with hookup culture, which results from sexual double standards. In addition, the authors studied the responses to a hypothetical situation where they asked students to indicate…

In the essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor”, hooks proposes a different perspective on issues regarding people of higher class compared to those of lower class. She reveals the false truth that has been bestowed upon the poor culture due to misrepresentations. The unfortunate depiction illustrating the underprivileged has created personal burdens and disadvantages among the poor. Bell believes equality from the government and “working class” could link progressive change…

feminist deconstruction and criticism of hookup culture with a focus on male emotions and experiences is vital; men must be viewed as human beings with equal sexual anxieties, pressures, and flaws, not as mere hormonal “fuckboys” who treat women they hook up with expendably. I urge the reader to ask a simple question: why do so many researchers analyze the effects on women, but not men? Furthermore, why do a number of studies make assumptions about the effect of hookup culture of men and view…

Furthermore, Hooks also talks about how stereotyping and the concept of invisibility is made aware through the black imagination. For example: ‘Blacks, I realized, were simply invisible to most white people except as a pair of hands offering a drink on a silver tray.’ Reduced to the machinery of bodily physical labor, black people learned to appear before whites as though they were zombies, cultivating the habit of casting the gaze downward so as not to appear uppity. To look directly was an…

Representing the Poor,” Bell Hooks, discusses the issues of poverty. One of her claims is that America has negative attitudes and stereotypes towards poverty; she believes poverty is not something that should be looked down upon in society. Hooks has also observed the way these ideas have affected people’s views on poverty. She goes on about how poor people are degraded in media, the negative associations with poverty, and how people in poverty lives aren’t valued. Hooks uses the example of the…

Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was first published in 1904 and is a short story about a woman, named Georgiana, who finds herself transition from the ecstatic city of Boston, to the primitive Nebraska frontier. Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was inspired by Richard Wagner who was a German composer and conductor that lived from 1813 to 1883. He’s well known for his operas and his most famous work is that of “The Flying Dutchman”. Willa Cather, instead, wasn’t a musician but was an author of the…

Illegal Book Report Book Hook: This little girl named Nora was left with her mom and grandma by her dad to go over the border from Mexico to America. Now she is 15 and lives with her mom and grandma. There dad stop sending money to help them pay for things. So with the money they have Nora and her mom decide to go over the border to go find her Dad. With the long exhausting trip over the border in the back of a fruit truck having trouble surviving in Texas is extremely difficult. Trying to…

men and women. In “Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression”, bell hooks defines feminism in the very title. Throughout the reading, hooks continuously stresses the importance of intersectionality, and the feminist movement not just making women equal to men. Hooks defines feminism as a movement toward the dismantling of the patriarchy and focusing on the reality of all women, not just white, middle-class women. Hooks also emphasizes the need for feminism to focus on women who are most…