hooks is aware that this readership includes men and women, debunking the myth that feminism is a movement “for women against men” (xiii) even while discussing challenging and sometimes controversial topics. Her style and tone are straightforward, to best meet the needs of a readership who “have been socialized from birth on to accept sexist thought and action” (xii). bell hooks embodies both criteria of third wave feminism, insofar as she is critical of the devaluation of the feminie that often characterizes second wave. The first-person voice gives hooks’s writing a natural feel when she incorporates anecdotes and memories into her writing alongside the details and facts that explain the history of feminism. Hooks chooses to write in the first person throughout the book, blending first-person singular with first-person plural to engage readers with a conversational tone. This feeling inspired hooks to “write an easy to read book that would explain feminist thinking and encourage folks to embrace feminist politics” (ix). She describes “fe that somehow the movement had failed if we could not communicate feminist politics to everyone” (ix). In the preface to the new edition of Feminism Is for Everybody, hooks addresses the problem of academic jargon that afflicts many feminist texts available to readers who want to learn more about feminism.
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