bell hooks is clearly not conforming to the typical socially constructed representation of a woman - feminist she is but unlike the likes of Naomi Wolf, Katie Roiphe and Catherine Mackinnon to mention a few (or any other privileged white women) on various talk shows and magazines that are glamorized - we have to examine these voices and how they narrow the representation of women's movement to only a slice of the real pie. bell hooks is speaking outside the white dominant professional world - dealing with issues of sexual harrasment and unreal body ideals, racism, poverty and violence. hooks has gained a spectrum of enemies because of Outlaw Culture looks imperceptibly from feminist ro racial to economic criticsm. This collection on subjects such as gangsta rap, misogyny and film.
One would expect to find her works in the shelves of Women Studies, unfortunately they hidden in Cultural Studies.
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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