bell hooks
Nascido: September 25, 1952 – Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States
bell hooks was an American author, feminist theorist, and cultural critic whose work examined race, gender, class, education, and love. Her influential books include Ain’t I a Woman?, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, and All About Love. She published more than 30 books and shaped feminist and cultural studies discourse.
Biografia e Jornada do Autor
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, emerged from a working-class Black family in the segregated South and carried that early experience into nearly every phase of her writing. She adopted the pen name “bell hooks” from her maternal great-grandmother, styling it in lowercase to shift attention away from authorial celebrity and toward the work itself. After attending segregated schools and then integrated institutions, she studied English at Stanford University, earned a master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and later completed a doctorate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A decisive early turning point came when she wrote Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism while still very young; its eventual publication in 1981 announced a critic who would insist that race, gender, and class be understood as interlocking forces rather than separate subjects.
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"Trailblazing Black feminist bell hooks, whose graceful, probing and wide-ranging books sought to empower people of all races, classes and genders"
— The Washington Post
"Celebrated as a breakthrough cultural critic, bell hooks embraced expansive interests as a thinker and a prolific writer"
— Stanford Magazine
"bell hooks was among the most influential thinkers of her time"
— Associated Press
"bell hooks was a radical feminist, a scholar and author who spent the ’90s publishing about a book a year"
— TIME
"bell hooks is celebrated for trailblazing contributions to gender theory, political discourse, and Black feminist thought"
— Publishers Weekly
"bell hooks was one of the great cultural critics and writers of the twentieth century"
— The New Yorker
"bell hooks embodied amazing courage and deeply felt intelligence"
— Margaret Atwood
