bell hooks is seen as a black radical revolutionary feminist, who refuses to be silenced. Portrayed as the undeniable controversial radical deconstructing borders of all kinds - from gender, race, intellectual and mainstream. The respected social critic operating in the white male dominated mainstream that denies her visibility.
Ain't I a Woman its title taken from a speech by the 19th century former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. In this book hooks challenged the minor role black women were given in both the feminist and black liberation movements, amd examines the idea of sisterhood among black women. In the essay collection Talk Back: Thinking Feminism, Thinking Black she expands her theories regarding black feminism.
In books such as Black Looks: Race and Representation and Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation - She takes on culture and societal shibboleths, studying black women and black intellectuals in the scheme of things whilst examing the role of the outsider in so-called mainstream society.
Wounds of Passion: looks at hooks life and her prolonged love affair with a man who she spent fifteen years with.
Teaching to Transgress: collection of essays about the power of teaching. hooks emphasizes on powe of education to liberate..
About Me
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- bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) was born September 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She is from a working class family with five sisters and one brother. She graduated from Hopkinsville High School, Kentuchy, earned her B.A in English from Stanford University in 1973 and her M.A in English from University of Wisconcin-Madison in 1976. After several years of teaching and writing, in 1983 she completed her doctorate in literature department from University of California, Santa Cruz with a dissertation on author Toni Morrison. She gained widespread recognition as an influential contributor to postmodern feminist thought decades after the publication of “Ain’t I a Woman?’. In 1980-85 she was an assistant professor of Afro-American studies and English at Yale University, New Haven, CT. In 1986 she became associate professor of English at Oberlin College until 1994. She was City College of New York professor, then distinguished professor of English from 1995 – 2004. Early 2004 she became distinguished professor-in-residence at Berea College, Berea, KY. She is a social critic, educator, writer and co-founder of Hambone literary magazine.
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