politics

“Feminists are made, not born. One does not become an advocate of feminist politics simply by having the privilege of having been born female. Like all political positions one becomes a believer in feminist politics through choice and action.” bell hooks, feminism is for everybody, p 7.

> Women are subject to violence both within the home and without, provided a patriarchal bargain that puts Faustian ones to shame: whether to accept one’s lot as a domesticized indentured servant and saddled with the bulk of childcare, domestic work, and sexual labor, or to reject this heterosexualist imperative and... See more