Bell hooks
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"Within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy the experience of men dressing as women, appearing in drag, has always been regarded by the dominant heterosexist cultural gaze as a sign that one is symbolically crossing over from a realm of power into a realm of powerlessness."--bell hooks on Paris is Burning in a piece published in Black Hooks |
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bell hooks (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) was an American intellectual, academic, feminist, and social activist best known for her book Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism (1981).
Overview
The focus of hooks' writing was the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She published more than 30 books and numerous scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films, and participated in public lectures. Her work addressed race, class, gender, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism.
Select bibliography
- Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism (1981) ISBN 0-89608-129-X
- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) ISBN 0-89608-614-3
- Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989) ISBN 0-921284-09-8
- Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990) ISBN 0-921284-34-9
- Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991) (with Cornel West) ISBN 0-89608-414-0
- Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992) ISBN 0-89608-433-7
- Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-recovery (1993) ISBN 1-896357-99-7
- Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom (1994) ISBN 0-415-90808-6
- Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994) ISBN 0-415-90811-6
- Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995) ISBN 0-8050-5027-2
- Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (1995) ISBN 1-56584-263-4
- Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996)
- Bone Black: memories of girlhood (1996) ISBN 0-8050-5512-6
- Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (1997) ISBN 0-8050-5722-6
- Happy to be Nappy (1999) ISBN 0-7868-0427-0
- Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (1999) ISBN 0-8050-5910-5
- Justice: Childhood Love Lessons (2000)Template:Cite book
- All About Love: New Visions (2000) ISBN 0-06-095947-9
- Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000) ISBN 0-89608-629-1
- Where We Stand: Class Matters (2000) ISBN 978-0-415-92913-4
- Salvation: Black People and Love (2001) ISBN 0-06-095949-5
- Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002) ISBN 0-06-093829-3
- Homemade Love (2002) ISBN 0-7868-0643-5
- Be Boy Buzz (2002) ISBN 0-7868-0814-4
- Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003) ISBN 0-415-96817-8
- Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-esteem (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5605-X
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5607-6
- Space (2004) ISBN 0-415-96816-X
- We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004) ISBN 0-415-96926-3
- Skin Again (2004) ISBN 0-7868-0825-X
- Soul Sister: Women, Friendship, and Fulfillment (2005) ISBN 0-89608-735-2
- Witness (2006) ISBN 0-89608-759-X
- Grump Groan Growl (2008) ISBN 0-7868-0816-0
- Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2010) ISBN 9780415968201
Film appearances
- Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)
- Give a Damn Again (1995)
- Cultural Criticism and Transformation (1997)
- My Feminism (1997)
- Voices of Power (1999)
- Baadasssss Cinema (2002)
- I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America (2004)
- Writing About a Revolution: A Talk (2004)
- Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
- Is Feminism Dead? (2004)