“Feminist struggle to end patriarchal domination should be
of primary importance to women and men globally not because it is the
foundation of all other oppressive structures but because it is that form of
domination we are most likely to encounter in an ongoing way in everyday life.
Unlike other forms of domination, sexism directly shapes and determines
relations of power in our private lives, in familiar social spaces, in that
most intimate context – home – and in that most intimate sphere of relations –
family. Usually, it is within the family that we witness coercive domination
and learn to accept it…” -bell hooks
“It is necessary for
us to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the
capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound. It is necessary to
remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist –
the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for
an end to domination, for liberation.” – bell hooks
“Working
collectively to confront difference, to expand our awareness of sex, race and
class as interlocking systems of domination, of the ways we reinforce and
perpetuate these structures, is the context in which we learn the true meaning
of solidarity. It is this work that must be the foundation of feminist
movement” -bell hooks
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