{"product_id":"outlaw-culture-resisting-representations-routledge-classics","title":"Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Routledge Classics) (Hardcover, 320 pages) – Routledge, 2015. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAccording to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a ‘powerful site for intervention, challenge and change’. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   \u003cp\u003e'The reader discovers ... that bell hooks is a joy to read, her work a nimbly written hybrid form of social commentary, by turns personal, political, and in-your-face.' - San Francisco Chronicle Examiner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Outlaw Culture should be read, regardless of whether one agrees with feminism as presented by hooks. hooks raises critical issues that all should find engaging as well as challenging!' - Real African World, Bridgitt Mwamini Robertson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'She brings to the task of cultural criticism an astute eye and a courageous spirit ... Hers is a voice that forces us to confront the political undercurrents of life in America.' - New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'hooks' style is refreshingly brash and accessible and often inflected by personal experience. Readers may contest her politics, yet few will be unmoved by the spirit that animates these essays; a desire to rethink cultural institutions that sustain racism, sexism, and other systems of political oppression.' - Publishers' Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[hooks] made a choice to write for the largest possible audience, to change the greatest number of lives.' - Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e           About the Author   \u003cp\u003ebell hooks (b. 1951) is mainly known as a feminist thinker, although her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race, teaching and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She is Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e                                           ","brand":"bell hooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069354463466,"sku":"9781138127586","price":9.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/21cOE-lrhBL._SL1500_41cbc649-5b8a-40ee-97a1-f4073136de06.jpg?v=1781206769","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/outlaw-culture-resisting-representations-routledge-classics","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}