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'Communion' by bell hooks, 2006.
A review of the ideas portrayed by bell hooks in her work 'Communion'.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper takes a look at the way author bell hooks treats the issue of love in her book 'Communion', part of her trilogy on love in America. This paper discusses hooks ideas on how women can achieve freedom through love rather than seeing love as a subjugating force. It begins with the premise that women feel confused about love because of the way they are socialized in a patriarchal social structure.
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"In her book 'Communion: The Female Search for Love', bell hooks (who prefers that her name have no capitals) completes a trilogy on love in America, in this case discussing how women can achieve freedom through love rather than seeing love as a subjugating force. She begins with the premise that women feel confused about love because of the way they are socialized in a patriarchal social structure. Hooks notes that feminist writers have denigrated love and made it difficult for women to express their true feelings on the subject, which she says should be as important to women in middle age as it was when they were younger. She proposes to offer what is needed, namely "constructive visions of redemptive love" (15). "
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Bell Hooks and Postmodernism, 2002.
Discusses the concept of postmodernism, focuising on contributions made by feminist, Bell Hooks.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 115.95
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This paper provides an analysis of postmodernism and a discussion of the contributions of postcolonial feminist Bell Hooks. Issues addressed in this paper include the politics of difference, racism, essentialism and references are made specifically to the writings of bell hooks.
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Bell Hooks' Contribution, 2005.
This paper discusses the contribution of Bell Hooks, as a black feminist, to feminism and anthropology.
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This essay provides an overview of the work by Bell Hooks, a black feminist. It looks at her work in particular with the issues of expanding and promoting education, stopping racism, sexism and classism as a postmodernist and also by examining her critique of existentialism. The writer also discusses that Bell Hooks can be characterized as a socialist, a cultural critique and even as a radical.
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"Bell Hooks is a world-renewed scholar and a post-modern black feminist. She is well known for her critical appraisal of the white, middle class and male dominated society. Unlike many of her colleagues in academia, Bell Hooks has participated in TV and radio discussions and takes her view outside scholarly circles. Her written work is also such that it invites readers of all educational backgrounds not just those from academia. Her work on radical black feminism has been an inspiration for many young feminists of colour because of her explicit criticism on the ethnocentrism and mainstream feminism in the white-dominated society."
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"Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life" ( Bell Hooks & Cornell West ), 1993.
Critical summary of essays & dialogues on black sexuality, spirituality, politics, work & play.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"This study will provide a critical summary of Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, by bell hooks and Cornel West. The book is composed of ten sections, including an introduction, six of which are dialogues and mutual interviews between the two authors. Two sections are brief biographies of each author by the other, and the final two sections are separate essays by the authors on black intellectual life.
The book is a fascinating cornucopia of dialogue and ideas and insights related to almost every aspect of black life and culture. Uniting the different sections of the book is the authors' goal of creating a more inclusive and loving black community through the expression of their "testimony." bell hooks presents a concept of testimony which guides this book:
Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious.."
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Hooks and Racism, 2008.
This paper discusses Bell Hooks' treatment of the issue of racism, focusing on the work "Killing Rage: Ending Racism".
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that the scholar Bell Hooks' 'Killing Rage: Ending Racism' begins with the shocking defense of a severely psychologically disturbed black man who unleashed a killing spree on the New York subway. The writer notes that while by no means defending murder, Hooks engages in a kind of tacit endorsement of the man's motivation, or his sophisticated understanding that both blacks and whites can perpetuate institutionalized racism, by supporting institutions that foster racist attitudes. The writer points out that America is a nation founded upon a racial divide between blacks and whites, founded upon the economic, political, and social legacy of slavery. The writer discusses that the notion of institutionalized, rather than personalized racism demarcated by Hooks stresses that although the effects of institutionalized racism may disproportionately affect blacks, both black and white 'bodies' can and do enforce the prejudices and stereotypes.
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" Hooks' criticism seems apt in the sense that 'whiteness' as a construct, much like 'heterosexuality' and 'maleness' has only recently been problematized within contemporary academic discourse. But Hooks' use of the term as the opposite of blackness, in reference to individuals is itself problematic. What about racial categories of white people who only 'recently' became white, such as people of Irish, Italian, or Mediterranean extraction? Or Jewish people and members of other minorities that have not been able, historically, to fully participate in American culture because they are not seen as 'white.' Do they all see blackness in the same fashion because they are locked in the same ideological system, or do they exist within their own subculture as well as participate in the dominant discourse of black/white racialization?"
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Black Women and Feminism, 2006.
This paper reviews and discusses the historic oppression of black women as well as the existing gap between white and black women as detailed in Bell Hooks' "Ain't I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism."
1,320 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explores author Bell Hooks' theoretical perspective on blacks and feminism. Hooks claims that the major cause of oppression to black women came from many sources including white women interested in their own personal gain at the expense of black women and the black men interested in keeping them as second class citizens. This paper discusses the exploitation of women during the slave trade as one of the pioneering ways in the continuing devaluation of black women. The writer contends that Hooks' novel contains relevant research and subsequent evidence that clearly details why a gap still exists between black and white women. The writer of this paper stresses Hooks' desire for all women to bond together and for the struggle for equality to end.
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"In her research of the exploitation of slaves, Hooks' expertly does not focus on the sexual atrocities committed upon black women. She in fact details the effect brutalizing black women has on the black man, white man, and the white woman. Hooks explores the possibilities of the potential personal gain from dehumanizing black women, some of which include stereotypes/jealousy of the sexuality of a black woman, and "demasculating" the black man (psychological removal of his masculinity) in relation to exploiting 'his' woman. Bell Hooks' research into the hypocrisy of the feminist movement as it relates to white woman is the principal reason why many African American women, myself included, do not want any active participation with the women's movement."
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"Black Looks, Race and Representation", 2002.
Reviews Bell Hooks' book on the role and characteristics of an African-American male in a society constructed by white men.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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This essay discusses Bell Hooks' book "Black Looks, Race and Representation". In relation to three other related works, the paper examines how Hooks argues that the African-American male is forced by the white supremacist society to adopt certain masculine traits embedded in the patriarchal system. Thus, we see how the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy socially constructs oppression.
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Sisterhood, 2008.
A discussion on Bell Hooks' article "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women" and Linda Carty's article "The Discourse of Empire and the Social Construction of Gender."
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper discusses Bell Hooks' article "Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women." It then compares the concepts in her article to Linda Carty's article "The Discourse of Empire and the Social Construction of Gender." The paper argues that it is only through the construction of a multi-dimensional perspective on the realities of women's experience that we can hope to achieve a sisterhood based upon our common strengths and achievements.
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"It is perhaps understandable that only someone who knows the lack of empowerment could understand the critical importance of the littlest piece of agency and strength in one's life. Hooks' perception of the fundamental divisions that fragment the potential Sisterhood - divisions fostered and reinforced by the structures of class and race that are deeply intertwined with white patriarchy - one recognizes the extent of the struggle that remains for women. Consider, for example, the unpleasant fact that many young women today would not identify themselves as "feminists" despite their lives being built upon the advantages won by decades of feminist struggle. When hooks writes of how the focus on shared victimhood led many "white women activists to abandon feminist movement when they no longer embraced the victim identity" (hooks 107) the weaknesses engendered in the women's movement by this wallowing in "victimhood" become apparent. I have sometimes wondered why so many women find the terms feminist and feminism disturbing and alien to them. Hooks' contention that they are operating from the illusion of power serves to explain this otherwise inexplicable aspect of social identification."
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'Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women', 2006.
A review of 'Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women' by Bell Hooks.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper is a reaction to an article written by Bell Hooks called 'Sisterhood Political Solidarity Among Women'. In order, for feminists to unite they must openly communicate with others who are different than them. The paper further discusses how they must look past racial and cultural differences. They must be willing to accept other women regardless of their race, color, ethnic group, culture, or class.
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"This is a reaction paper to an article written by bell hooks called, "Sisterhood Political Solidarity among Women." Feminists are not united because there are too many issues that separate them. Women are taught at an early age to dislike other women who are different. The early feminists did not encourage African American women to participate in their groups. Today, feminist are not united nor are the politically solidarity. In order, for feminists to unite they must openly communicate with others who are different than them. They must look past racial and cultural differences. "
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What's Love Got to Do With It?, 2001.
This essay is a critical examination of the film "The Piano" and of Bell Hook?s essay concerning sexism and misogyny.
1,640 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper studies the film "The Piano" which portrays sexism and misogyny and an essay by Bell Hook concerning these issues. It examines the film's themes and analyzes its main characters. It also discusses the historical correctness of the film. It studies the roles of men and women in the film and concludes that there is male domination.
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"The Piano ?seduces and excites audiences with its uncritical portrayal of sexism and misogyny.? Misogyny and sexism are the central themes in the movie, although I have to say that the movie relies on these ideas to keep it alive and of interest to women because it?s the very most thing they are familiar with. The movie has received rave reviews because of its sexuality and expression, although I do not think the average person sees the misogyny present or the harm in it being presented this way again and again. I believe this is because it has become so mainstream and accepted that it?s hardly recognizable anymore. ?No one speaking about this film mentions misogyny and sexism or white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.? "
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"Do The Right Thing" by Spike Lee, 1996.
Analyzes racial themes & messages of 1989 film in context of Bell Hooks' sociopsychological theory of "the Other."
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"Race and the divide between the races is either the subject or the subtext in many films. The theory of the creation of "the Other" as delineated by Bell Hooks applies to these works and helps illuminate how they handle the issue of race. Hooks's analysis will serve as the critical perspective to be applied to a film overtly about racial tensions and how they develop, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.
Hooks notes how race is used not merely to discriminate against one group or another but to make that group discriminate against itself:
Though systems of domination, imperialism, colonialism, racism, actively coerce black folks to internalize negative perceptions of blackness, to be self-hating, and many of us succumb, blacks who imitate whites..."
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"Xena" and Feminist Theorists, 1999.
Analyzes the TV shows's heroine and other female characters from the perspectives of Carol Gilligan, Nancy Chodorow and Bell Hooks.
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"Xena and the Feminist Theorists
Introduction
What Nancy Chodorow might make of Xena is hard to guess, but what Xena would think of Chodorow's theory is easy to imagine. She would snort, sneer, make a snide comment and go on with her busy, non mothering life. Yet, there are two main female characters in the syndicated television series, and a number of other important mortal and immortal female figures. The intent in this paper is to explore the nature of those female figures in terms of three feminist theorists - Carol Gilligan, Nancy Chodorow, and Bell Hooks.
It is important to remember from the beginning that television is fantasy, and Xena is even more fantastic than most television. It uses characters from both myth and history to ..."
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Bell?s Inequality, 2002.
An insight into Bell?s Theorem (Bell?s Inequality) of quantum theory.
2,115 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses the work of the physicist John Bell, who's great recognized achievement occurred during the 1960s when he brought new life into the foundations of quantum theory. It examines how Bell demonstrated that discussion of such concepts as 'realism', 'determinism' and 'locality' could be formed into a rigorous mathematical statement, 'Bell's Theorem?, which is capable of experimental test. It looks at how his work has become a point of interest for scientists throughout the world who have found applications not only in quantum theory, but in investigations of the physical universe as well and how current applications of Bell?s Inequality have been found in the development of quantum computing and quantum cryptography.
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"Quantum mechanics, however, fails to satisfy Bell's Inequality. He predicts correlations that cross over boundaries that are delineated by the structure of that inequality. Quantum mechanics predicts ?odd? correlations that seem to defy a common, classical conception of reality, and in fact it is for basically this type of reason that Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen argued in 1935 that it was incomplete. The formulation of Bell's Inequality, however, allowed the possibility for determining, through experiment, which was right: quantum mechanics or a local reality theory of the sort Einstein postulated, because it stated what must be the case in our experiments if a locally real theory is correct."
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"The Bells", 2002.
A brief examination of the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe.
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The paper sheds light on the central idea of the poem, ?The Bells? by Poe. The poem revolves around different phases of human life and connects them to chiming of bells. ?The Bells? is considered a near-perfect example of a poetic device called onomatopoeia.
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"The Bells? on first reading would appear to be a happy song, which talks about various stages of man?s life and the significance of different sounds. But in-depth analysis reveals that this poem is actually more autobiographical in nature and though it does mention the four stages that man goes through, it is by no means a happy song. This brings us to the central idea of the poem. The poem chronicles four stages of man?s life with first being the happiest yet shortest and last two being saddest yet longer. Man?s childhood is the sunniest time of his life but it lasts for a brief period whereas maturity and near-death moments are saddest and highly undesirable yet they appear to last a very long time. It is important to understand here that keeping in view these thoughts, Poe deliberately gave his first two stanzas fewer lines than the last two. He did not specifically complain about the shortness of childhood or youth, yet he wants to convey this idea through the number of lines that these stanzas contain. The sudden leap from short to long stanzas surprises the readers and make them think about the obvious and deliberately created difference."
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