Blog 17 Bell Hooks

The Significance Of Feminist Movement pg 821
What does Hooks see as the mistakes of the early feminists?
-Bell Hooks did a very great job for women and men to understand the feminist movement. She mainly discussed “exploitation and oppression of women”, basically women struggles. Hooks make a good point that “ some feminist efforts actually pushed people away who might have had a stake in the movement”(pg822), which to me mean that women had opportunities and goals that could have been pushed away. Hooks said it defiantly happened to women of color than privileged white women, but white women as Hooks explained, there lives was still based on limited opportunity. I think that women in the modern society were afraid to express how they felt about never being equally to men. Women did want to go out and work in stead of being home all the time, but now in today’s society there are working independent women who do both work and take care of their household. I appreciate the women in the modern society because they went through so much that women today couldn’t even survive through some of the issues that women fought for or went through. Most women and men I think don’t appreciate the struggles the women had to come across so women in the next generation won’t suffer from the same causes. There is still a controversy between both sexes and I believe that there will always continue to be a major issue because men will still think they have control over everything and treat women as if they was below them and women will continue to be strong and speak up for what’s right.