I really liked this reading. It was very straight forward and easy to read. She went straight to the point and put her views out there. While reading it was a lot easier than the previous, it did contain a certain depth in meaning that I didn't catch in any of the other readings. Not to say that the other readings were not good, but I think that I was able to relate to this reading a lot more because I could understand the way in which it was written. It was the most modern reading.
In exploring hook's "The Significance of Feminist Movement," she believes that one of the primary mistakes of the early feminists were their inability to distinguish the female struggle for equal rights between the fight against men. "In their eagerness to highlight sexist injustice, women focused almost exclusively on the ideology and practice of male domination" (hooks 824). In exploring this, she is saying that women were more focused on deeming men as the enemy, which in turn called men the enemy. "They argued that all men are the enemies of all women and proposed as solutions to this problem a utopian woman nation, separatist communities, and even the subjugation or extermination of all men" (hooks 825). In saying this, men are the enemy, and there is a fight to be had among the two sexes.
hooks, bell. "The Significance of Feminist Movement." A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for the College Writer. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. 7th ed. New York: Bedford?St. Martins. 2006. pp. 824-831.
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I do agree that this reading I was able to relate and understand it better than the other readings also. I think that the men are not the enemies because it was the way that society was back then and, in the previous reading Fredrick Douglass and other men showed up to the women's right conference to help fight for equality.
I agree with you that women were more focused more on making men the enemy, then equality. Causing a fight between the sexes.
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