The two essay that read were Rosalind Delmar’s “What Is Feminism?” and bell hooks’ “Theory as Liberatory Practice.” Both essays dove into the question of what feminism could entail and how it is beneficial to study and understand `feminist theory. A question that stuck out to me in Delmar’s essay was “Does feminism have any necessary unity politically, socially, or culturally?” (25). Every person, that I have experienced, that don’t consider themselves a “feminist,” demand an explanation to what feminism means. There are so many different theories of feminism, there are so many people that call themselves feminists but don’t ever consider the different experiences between women of color and white women. This is something that bell hooks touched …show more content…
Delmar says that the broad view of what feminism is “usually defined as an active desire to change women’s position in society” (27). Depending on the feminist theory that you may identify with, determines how that may be done. So the idea that bell hooks argues is that feminist theory, though it can be very elitist, has so many benefits. She says that she came into theory “desperate, wanting to comprehend- to grasp what was happening around and within me.” What does it mean to be feminist? And as Delmar asks, “does feminism have any necessary unity politically socially, or culturally?” This contemporary feminist movement, whatever that means is especially difficult to define. It’s proven by this upcoming election, where many millennial feminists don’t plan on voting for Hillary Clinton, who could be the first women president. Liberal feminism asserts that putting more women in higher positions will end eventually change women’s position in society. Whereas radical feminists demand a reform/revolution of the current