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While most academics fill their books with arcane reference and convoluted lingo, hooks is fresh, direct and comprehensible; she is probably the only feminist theorist and cultural critic who quotes Marvin Aye often as Michel Foucault...
...book challenges our assumptions about how these images work. As a political Black feminist who boldly declares herself an enemy of America's "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy," hooks speaks from standpoint truly oppositional to most mainstream thought. She tirelessly interrogates the institutions most people take for granted. As she writes in her introduction, these essays are "gestures of defiance...find[ing] words that express what I see, especially when I am looking in ways that move against the grain, when I seeing things that most folks want to simply believe are not there...
...teenagers, Susan and her sister Lorraine are climbing out of their windows to rendezvous with boyfriends with police records. After graduating from Vassar, Susan becomes a successful feminist writer and then a heroin addict, street drug peddler and shoplifter. Lorraine, pregnant and married at 17, is also a heroin addict but switches to brown rice, three more husbands and homeopathic remedies at an ashram in Yogaville...
...BOTTOM LINE: A basebelle movie finds humor in a feminist footnote...
...being attacked by cosmic rays, a girlfriend who shows up on her doorstep (with kids) to take refuge from a violent lover, a government bureaucracy that takes away her housing allowance the minute she earns a little extra income. This made- for-TV movie has more authentic feminist spirit than Murphy Brown, more realism and heart than The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, and more plainspoken charm than any TV movie seen in the U.S. in years...