Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of the most important books of the current moment.--Time

A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone.--Gabrielle Union, author of We're Going to Need More Wine

A brutally candid and unobstructed portrait of mainstream white feminism. --Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism

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. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?

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. Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, Hood Feminism delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. An unforgettable debut, Kendall has written a ferocious clarion call to all would-be feminists to live out the true mandate of the movement in thought and in deed.

Mikki Kendall is a bestselling author, lecturer, and blogger whose work has appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Time, Salon, Ebony, Essence, and others. She has spoken on Good Morning America, The Daily Show, MSNBC, NPR, Al Jazeera's The Listening Post, BBC's Woman's Hour, and Huff Post Live, as well as at universities around the country, about race, feminism, violence in Chicago, technology, pop culture, and social media. She's also the author of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Struggle for Rights, as well as a co-editor of the Locus-nominated anthology Hidden Youth and a member of the Hugo-nominated Fireside Magazine team of editors. She is a veteran who currently resides in Chicago with her family.

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ISBN 13	9780525560548
ISBN 10	0525560548
Title	Hood Feminism
Author	Mikki Kendall
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2020-02-25
Number of pages	288
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