Bell hooks describes how women's studies programs became a fruitful site for feminist thinking and theorizing, exposing and often converting masses of students to feminist ways of thinking about the world. However, there were some costs that she describes as well. What are some of the problems she points out with this shift? a. general audiences were neglected an important site for mobilizing
b. elitist, jargony language discouraged popular reading of feminist texts
c. feminist movements were deradicalized and depoliticized as they joined university bureaucracies
d. the experiences of privileged class women were for a time favored in feminist theorizing
e. all of the above

Bell Hooks noted that elitist, jargony language discouraged popular reading of feminist texts.

Bell Hooks noted that even though women's studies programs were doing some good work in educating the masses on women's rights and feminist ideals, more work could be done when it came to feminist texts.

Ms. Hooks believed that these texts were usually full of unnecessarily complicated text that could be described as jargon and was elitist in tone as it praised women past the point of equality and instead placed them on a pedestal.

Ms. Hooks believed that this was a big reason for feminist texts not making for very popular reading.

More information on Bell Hooks and her ideas on feminism can be found at

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