Out of context, that opening line is a little jarring. Ultimately, using the broadest definitions of culture (and of course later recognizing her limits and failures in relation to gender and sex), bell hooks is arguing the impracticality of complete separation of men and women, boys and girls, and any other combination of relations in modern US culture. While adults do have a real opportunity to seek those separate spaces, most people won’t choose this course and plenty simply can’t, especially children and also men […]