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Ted Lasso (2020)/S4E2 · Curiouser and Curiouser!/Rebecca's bell hooks: Feminism Is for Everybody
Ted Lasso · Season 4, Episode 2, "Curiouser and Curiouser!"

Rebecca's bell hooks: Feminism Is for Everybody

Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham)

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In the second episode of season four, Rebecca asks a bookshop to save her a copy of anything by bell hooks, and The Persistent says she cracks it open afterward. A Bookshop.org list names the title as Feminism Is for Everybody.

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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

bell hooks · 2000 · nonfiction

hooks wrote it in 2000 as a short primer for people who had never read feminist theory. She took her pen name from her great-grandmother and kept it lowercase. Rebecca spent three seasons running a football club in a room full of men. She is reading the beginner's edition as a refresher.

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