ABSTRACT
hooks distinguishes two forms of sisterhood. The first is an empty, if not repressive and hypocritical, claim on the part of middle-class white women that all women are sisters in virtue of their common oppression. Women’s diversity in terms of race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation belies this claim. But there is a second form of sisterhood that is based on solidarity among diverse women. Solidarity is built through hard, ongoing political work—work confronting conflicts, work finding common interests and goals, and work opposing sexist oppression in all its forms, hooks advocates this second form of sisterhood.
