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Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot / Mikki Kendall.

Summary:

"Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women." -- Publisher's description

Record details

ISBN: 9780525560548
ISBN: 0525560548
Physical Description: xviii, 267 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020].
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267).

Formatted Contents Note:

Solidarity is still for white women -- Gun violence -- Hunger -- Of #FastTailedGirls and freedom -- It's raining patriarchy -- How to write about black women -- Pretty for a ... -- Black girls don't have eating disorders -- The fetishization of fierce -- The hood doesn't hate smart people -- Missing and murdered -- Fear and feminism -- Race, poverty, and politics -- Education -- Housing -- Reproductive justice, eugenics, and maternal mortality -- Parenting while marginalized -- Allies, anger, and accomplices.