Respondona: Feminist Black Thinking

After the warm reception of bell hooks' All About Love, one of the most prominent voices in contemporary feminism, we present Responding Back, an intellectual journey through her long career as a black feminist and activist. Responding Back delves into the significance of feminist consciousness in everyday life, personal resilience, overcoming white and male supremacy, intimate relationships, and the intersection of the public and the private sphere.

As a child, bell hooks learned that speaking on equal terms with an authority figure and daring to disagree or express an opinion meant being "responding back". In this collection of essays, as personal as they are theoretical, hooks reflects on her classic themes: racism, feminism, politics, and pedagogy. One of her discoveries is that for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who rise up and fight side by side, transitioning from silence to speaking out is a defiant gesture that heals and makes possible a new life and growth.

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