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bell hooks

bell hooks

bell hooks is a cultural critic, a feminist theorist, and the renowned author of more than twenty books. A charismatic speaker, she divides her time between teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. She lives in Kentucky and New York City.

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Excerpt 1 from Rock My Soul
Aug 30, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Will to Change
Aug 30, 2012
When Angels Speak of Love will be released on February 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Feb 05, 2011
When Angels Speak of Love is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 05, 2011
When Angels Speak of Love will be released on February 06, 2007 in Hardcover
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The Will to Change will be released on December 21, 2004 in Trade Paperback
Dec 21, 2004
The Will to Change is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Will to Change will be released on January 06, 2004 in eBook
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Harper Collins, April 16, 2013
...Press, and Essence magazine. Her many celebrated authors, include bestselling novelists Terry McMillan and Walter Mosley; cultural critic bell hooks, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton; and critically acclaimed writers Paul Beatty, Melanie Rae Thon, and...
Indiewire, April 15, 2013
...have long made a lasting impression in literacy circles worldwide. From Frederick Douglass’ famous narrative on slavery to bell hooks’ eloquent description of feminism to Alice Walker’s poignant portrayal of Black women in ‘The Color Purple’...
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Tech Leader, April 6, 2013
...black women as invalid because they are allegedly homosexual. In her book Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics Bell Hooks reminds us that “Romantic love as most people understand it in patriarchal culture makes one unaware, renders one...
St. Mary's College of California, March 8, 2013
...that we stand up and take responsibility when our students and colleagues “name their pain.” As the writer bell hooks wrote in her book, “Teaching to Transgress,” this is the enterprise of education as the practice of freedom, not just for our...
Guardian.co.uk, January 18, 2013
...put iron into my previously wishy-washy "people are equal" feminism. From Helen I came to the writings of bell hooks and Julia Serano, two authors whose books gave me the uncanny sense of finally putting on paper all the inchoate ideas that had been...
Huffington Post, January 16, 2013
...realized that I had been reduced to nothing more than a conquest. In her essay, "Eating the Other," bell hooks argues that "as is often the case in this society, they were confident that non-white people had more life experience, were more worldly,...
Interview Magazine, January 15, 2013
...ABOVE: HENDRIK WEBER, AKA PANTHA DU PRINCE. A carillon, for those who haven't heard one before, is an absolutely massive instrument. Weighing three tons, and comprised of 50 bronze bells, it's just about the last thing you'd ever associate with a club...
Pink News, January 11, 2013
...Then she dips her toes into how the big mean intersectionals are shutting down discussion, claiming she’s read bell hooks. Then comes Suzanne Moore’s point: that we shouldn’t care about tiny little things like the oppression of trans people and...
Sydney Morning Herald, January 10, 2013
...instead closes down discussion. The same with ''intersectionality'', the new buzzword. Though not that new: I know my bell hooks. It means we must understand our own privilege: the multiple oppressions of race, class, culture and sexuality. I speak as a...
Canberra Times, January 10, 2013
...instead closes down discussion. The same with ''intersectionality'', the new buzzword. Though not that new: I know my bell hooks. It means we must understand our own privilege: the multiple oppressions of race, class, culture and sexuality. I speak as a...
Melbourne Age, January 10, 2013
...instead closes down discussion. The same with ''intersectionality'', the new buzzword. Though not that new: I know my bell hooks. It means we must understand our own privilege: the multiple oppressions of race, class, culture and sexuality. I speak as a...