Her words garner just as much attention on the page. Her banter with the audience during the Q&A floated easily between thoughtful answers, deep questioning and sly quips that kept us at rapt attention. In the 1990s she blessed my college campus for a week, and I was mesmerized by lectures that were deliciously brilliant yet full of humor. If you ever heard hooks speak, it would come as no surprise that she first attended college to study drama, as she recounted in a 1992 essay. I've retrieved every bell hooks book today, and the unwieldy stack comforts me as I assess the impact of her loss. I doubt I would have survived this long without her work, and the work of other Black feminist thinkers of her generation, to guide me. She's in nearly every section – race, class, film, cultural studies – and, as expected, her books take up an entire shelf in the feminism section. There are well-worn bell hooks books scattered throughout my library.
Sex discrimination against women.Arts & Life Trailblazing feminist author, critic and activist bell hooks has died at 69 In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future."-p. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from divisive barriers but rich with rigorous debate. hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. "In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. A feminist sexual politic : an ethics of mutual freedomġ6. Our bodies, ourselves : reproductive rightsġ5. Feminist education for critical consciousnessĥ. Consciousness-raising : a constant change of heartĤ. Request This Author hooks, bell, 1952-2021 Titleįeminism is for everybody : passionate politics / Bell Hooks.
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