Scrutiny assumed working-class readers lacked cultural resources for resistance

Evidence

To reach a broader audience required the writing of work that was clear and concise, that could be read by readers who had never attended college or even finished high school. Imagining my mother as my ideal audience—the reader I most wanted to convert to feminist thinking—I cultivated a way of writing that could be understood by readers from diverse class backgrounds. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 18 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Feminist writing can deliberately target readers across class boundaries — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 18; The Uses of Literacy reframed mass publishing analysis through readers’ culture

Related

• Feminist writing can deliberately target readers across class boundaries (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• The Uses of Literacy reframed mass publishing analysis through readers’ culture #responds-to (0.50)
• Feminist writing can deliberately target readers across class boundaries #responds-to (0.45) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 18