What problems did hooks see in Betty Friedan's The Feminist Mystique?
Why doesn't "sexist tyranny" forge "a common bond between all women'?
What distinctions does hooks make about the suffering of the
oppressed? In what ways does hooks describe herself as a oppressed
woman? In much of her discussion, hooks refers to "a racist, sexist,
capitalist state." To what extent is she correct indescribing
American in these terms? hooks says, "There is much evidence
substantiating the reality that race and class identity creates
differences in quality of life, social status, and lifestyle that take
precedence over the common experience women share." What are the
common experiences that women share? To what extent is hooks right in
saying that race and class make it difficult or impossible for women
to share common ground, even in terms of the feminist movement? hooks
is carefult to criticize Friedan without declaring her work to be
invalid or useless, but she is ver direct in claiming that Friedan
distorts women's issues. Is hooks right? In what ways do the
selections by Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf reveal the
problesm that hooks describes? What would the importance of social
class be to Wollstonecraft and Woolf? Would they be open to the
problems of black women? Would they be open to the problems of women
of the servant classes of their own time? How might beel hooks
critique their work? To what extent are Simone de Beauvori's concerns
about the myth of women relevant to hooks's statement, "By projecting
onto black women amythical power and strenght, white women both
promote a false image of themselves as powerless, passive victims and
delfect attention away for their aggressiveness, their power, thier
willingness to dominate and controll others? How does the act of
mythicizing women regardless of color affect them negatively? To what
extent does hooks think that white women aretain considerable power
even while experiencing oppression? In what ways do the experiences
of Harriet Jacobs authenticate the concerns of bell hooks? |
