Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics Quotes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Feminism Is for Everybody.

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics Quotes

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"Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression." (1)

"Sisterhood could not be powerful as long as women were competitively at war with one another. Utopian visions of sisterhood based solely on the awareness of the reality that all women were in some ways victimized by male domination were disrupted by discussions of class and race." (3)

"Without confronting internalized sexism women who picked up the feminist banner often betrayed the cause in their interactions with other women?" (11)

"Everything we do in life is rooted in theory. Whether we consciously explore the reasons we have a particular perspective or take a particular action there is also an underlying system shaping thought and practice." (19)

"Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself...

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