![]() She wrote 30 books and multiple essays on feminism, racism, masculinity, visual culture, and more. hooks wrote her first book, Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, at the tender age of 19, but did not publish it until she was 29. ![]() bell hooks was the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins she spelled her name in lowercase to keep the attention on the work, rather than on the author.īorn in 1952 to a working-class family in a small segregated town in Kentucky, hooks obtained a BA in English from Stanford University, an MA in English from the University of Madison-Wisconsin, and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Black American writer, feminist theorist, and cultural critic bell hooks did this with verve throughout her life. ![]() One of the goals I’ve set for Feminism Makes Us Smarter (FMUS or “famous”), is to share the ideas of feminism with a broader audience. ![]() Rereading bell hooks’s Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics ![]()
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