In this attractive South End Press Classics edition, featuring a new preface, hooks maintains that mainstream feminism's reliance on white, middle-class, and professional spokeswomen obscures the centrality of women of color and poor women in the movement for women's liberation. About the Author: bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. A frequent lecturer, she is Distinguisted Professor of English at City College, City University of New York.