In Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics , bell hooks sends an inclusive invitation in accessible language to all of her readers. Her invitation? “Come closer to feminism.” [1] As her readers learn about the feminist movement in her chapters, they find they are no longer alienated from its history in the United States. hooks patiently carries them forward through the trials and triumphs experienced at the heart of the movement. In doing so, she exudes the communal inclusivity at the center of her feminism, indeed the only feminism she believes can flourish. In each of her brief chapters, she imbues her words with a tendency towards the imaginative and ends with a vision. Importantly, hooks writes to all not only in practicing her communal, inclusive perspective, but also, in the spirit of cooperative, progressive, revolutionary feminism that seeks feminist alternatives in conjunction with others, without whom the movement could not succeed. At the root of hooks...