What is the author's style in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks?

The author spends a significant amount of time articulating her perspective. The reason is that she is one example of a group that is typically called 'under represented' in the over all culture. She is an American woman. She is a black woman. She is a feminist. She has knowledge of both the South and of the North. She was raised in the South and she teaches for her profession in the North.

The author comes from a fortunate background in that her family and teachers were benevolent. She notes that because she was often in an all-black atmosphere there were codes of conduct and issues relating to status and to gender that were made clear without direct involvement in racial issues with white. She writes that her parents used corporeal punishment and that her father was typically the one with the responsibility of dispensing the harshest of the punishments. The school teachers taught the agenda of liberation and of uplifting the entire race, one member at a time.

The author believes that she was raised in patriarchy. In patriarchy the men are assumed to be or are forced to be the leaders and have both he burdens and privileges associated with familial, social and political duties. In matriarchy, lines of descent, political, social and religious duties along with leadership are typically located amongst the women. Regardless of whether a society is patriarchal, matriarchal or more egalitarian in its structures, women and women and men are men. Some aspects of gender roles change whilst others do not, but what is may be interpreted with a different attitude. She believes that she was a victim of sexist practices as a consequence of the patriarchal social order in which she was reared.