Book Description
In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center FROM THE PUBLISHER
hooks suggests that feminists have not succeeded in creating a mass movement against sexist oppression because the very foundation of women's liberation has not accounted for the complexity and diversity of female experience.[women][political]