Purpose of Theorizing

Questions: 1. What is the purpose of theorizing according to bell hooks? 2. What does hooks mean by, “When our lived experience of theorizing is fundamentally linked to processes of self-recovery, of collective liberation, no gap exists between theory and practice”? (page 61) 3. What does hooks mean by “hegemonic feminist theory” (pages 63, 65) and what is her gripe regarding appropriation and devaluation, and public vs. academic settings? (pages 63–64) 4. Summarise hooks’s critique (page 64) of abstract and jargonistic theory in producing and reproducing class elitism, and the need for “everyday conversation[al]” theory to “educate the public”. 5. Should Black male leaders such Martin Luther King and Malcolm X be subjected to feminist critiques? (page 66)