Feminism By Bell Hooks: Chapter Summary

In chapter 17, To Love Again The Heart of Feminism by Bell Hooks quotes; “If women and men want to know love, we have to yearn for feminism. For without feminist thinking and practice we lack the foundation to create loving bonds” (Hooks, 100). As I was reading this, it sounded to me as if feminism was a must, almost sounding like a religion, because it is something people practice. Yet, if someone was trying to make their ideology a requirement of life they should just put it aside. If feminism was, as many feminist claim, simply about men and women being equal then maybe this could possibly be true, but the way they interpreted it throughout this chapter, feminism is clearly more specific than equality.
As the chapter goes on, she defined