1. After reading "Introduction to Concepts in Women's Studies", the articles by Hooks, Hull and Smith, Kimmel, and Yap are important to feminist literature because they all talk about a different aspect of feminism. In Bell Hooks' Talking Back, the woman explains that it wasn't okay for her to talk or ask for what she wanted. “In the world of the southern black community in which I grew up, “respond” and “answer” meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure” (1). In the past, women were not allowed to express what they thought, it was “wrong”. This story demonstrates the black racism involved in feminism. People opened their ears to what black men had to say, but they could easily ignore what black women had to say. Hull and Smith's politics of black women's studies also addressed black racism. Men were sexist and white women were racist. Where has this left room for black women? In Men and Women's Studies: Kimmel's Premises, Perils, and Promises on Sexism and Racism. This short story tells how women's studies is changing...