Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks's 1981 foundational Black-feminist work — Black women's historical-political condition under white-supremacist patriarchy
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The 1981 publication moment; the deeper Black-women's historical-political record from slavery onward.
Space
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The American Black-feminist political-historical setting.
Matter
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The embodied Black-women whose proper-historical-political condition the book examines.
Observer
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
hooks as proper Black-feminist theoretical-historical observer.
Energy
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The political-historical-philosophical energies of Black-feminist analysis.
Information
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
The systematic Black-feminist content of the foundational work.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Ain't I a Woman has been universally cited as foundational Black-feminist text; subsequent Black-feminist work has refined and extended specific historical-political claims.