num_pages: 267
description: 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?
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title: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
publisher: Viking