In the first chapter hooks critiques Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) as being a limited one dimensional perspective on women's reality even if it is a useful discussion about the impact of sexist discrimination on a select group of women, college-educated, middle- and upper-class married white women, namely housewives. A need that came from the women's liberation movement being primarily structured around issues relevant to white women with class privilege. In the Preface to the New edition of the book, hooks outlines how she wrote the book as a response to the need for theory that took into account gender, race and class. The book was published in French in 2017. The "margin" in the title refers to hooks' description of black women as existing on the margins and their lives hidden from mainstream American society as well as not being part of mainstream feminist theory. The book confirmed her importance as a leader in radical feminist thought. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center is a 1984 book about feminist theory by bell hooks.
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