Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and preactice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving. . Bell Hooks
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A feminist politics, or politics that supports women’s equality and freedom, is not an oppositional politics. A feminist politics is rooted in deep relationality. It recognizes that our culture is organized around the notion of domination and submission based on sex. When we try to make up for the inequalities of patriarchy by dividing ourselves into opposing camps, we are perpetuating the very systems of domination and submission that feminism seeks to dismantle.

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