Hood Feminism

Kendall's argument is direct: mainstream feminism has a priority problem. It centers the concerns of white, middle-class women — workplace equality, reproductive rights as bodily autonomy — while ignoring the issues that most urgently affect marginalized women: hunger, housing, gun violence, predatory lending, educational access. This is not a book about what feminism should add to its agenda. It is a book about what feminism has always claimed to be about — all women — and the gap between that claim and its actual practice. Kendall writes with the specificity of someone who grew up in the communities mainstream feminism tends to theorize rather than listen to. The most necessary corrective to mainstream feminist discourse and the one most likely to expand who the P&P reader thinks of when they think of feminist politics.