This book should be required reading for everyone. All feminists aren’t doing the work for all women. Hood feminism shows that feminism is not everybody all together and there’s a privilege to that title. This book also represents the struggles that Black women have had and continue to experience. It clearly outlines issues with the movement and intersectionality. She confronts issues of trying to deal with life in this country and what it means to be a Black woman. Everybody needs to read this text especially white women who consider themselves feminists.

Honestly a tough book to review. It is a raw, often difficult read especially if you are going to be willing to address your privilege. Ms. Kendall does not sugar coat or mince her words. She is direct and honest about the difference between what true feminism should look like and what it currently looks like.

I think it is a necessary read for just about anyone. Each chapter is a standalone essay. Some better than others. Ms. Kendall gets overly wordy from time to time and some of the essays where she feels more passionate than others are quite noticeable.

Thought provoking and well done.

Hood feminism is a must read for anyone with an interest in intersectional-feminism. It's revelatory and brings to the forefront so many issues that are often ignored in the wider feminist space.

Make no mistake about it, this is a serious, weighty feminist work. It's absolutely excellent, and should be required reading for white feminists especially. This is an opportunity for us to listen, and to do better.

I love Kendall's framing of allies and accomplices in the last essay. It's useful and important for white women to learn how to be on both the front lines of this fight and in the background when it's important and right.

Thanks to the publisher and the NetGalley for the digital ARC.

Thank you Penguin Group and Netgalley for the advance copy of this book, which will be released 2/25/20.

This book is important. It’s not always pleasant. It calls you on your shit. But more people should read it. It serves as a reminder that feminist issues include things like food insecurity, access to quality education, a living wage, and medical care. The book discusses how gun violence, mental health, education, and poverty are all feminist issues and frames them as racial and socio-economic issues we all need to care about as well. The author shares her perspective and experiences, demonstrating how white women/feminists and their (our) privilege prevent true intersectional feminism and solidarity.

This is a comprehensive yet accessible book that confronts the ways that mainstream feminism fails people of color, people of low economic status, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups. It is unlike other feminist texts in that it argues that feminism should begin with fighting foundational issues like housing, hunger, (gun) violence, and job security before touting campaigns about How to Be the Next Female CEO. Kendall blends her own life experiences and those of her neighbors and peers with feminist theory and critiques of white feminism. Her language is accessible to all readers. I learned a lot from this book and had to reread passages to fully absorb their weight and importance. I hope feminists buy and read this seminal work to broaden their care when tackling feminist issues.

Love this. I highlighted things every couple of pages. I will absolutely use this to teach, probably very soon. I will be buying a copy in addition to this ARC so that I can actually highlight, underline, dog ear.... I feel like this book really drives home and explains the idea of intersectional feminism in a way that, as a white female, I haven't always been able to explain.