University of Kentucky Libraries and College of Arts & Sciences invite campus and community members to join in celebrating the life and legacy of UK Libraries’ 2021 UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement recipient bell hooks beloved author, professor, feminist and activist whose influential work unites themes of gender, class and race.
I choose to re-appropriate the term ‘feminism’, to focus on the fact that to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.
I choose to re-appropriate the term ‘feminism’, to focus on the fact that to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.