Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), [1] was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. [2]

2025年3月18日 · Bell hooks, American scholar and activist whose work examined the connections between race, gender, and class. She often explored the varied perceptions of Black women and Black women writers and the development of feminist identities.

Creating over 70 pieces of published work ranging from films to children’s books, bell hooks will be remembered as a force in feminist theory and in cultural criticism.

2021年12月17日 · Discovering bell hooks changed the lives of countless Black women and girls. After picking up one of her many titles – Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Yearning: Race,...

Writer, professor, and social critic, bell hooks is undeniably one of the most successful "cross-over" academics of the late twentieth century. Her books look at the function of race and gender in today's culture.

2019年2月16日 · bell hooks is a Black feminist theorist. Learn more about how her work is both allied with and critical of the feminist and anti-racism movements.

2021年12月15日 · bell hooks – the beloved poet, author, feminist and professor – has died, announced Berea College, the university at which she taught, on Wednesday. She was 69.

2021年12月15日 · Acclaimed feminist author and activist bell hooks has died at the age of 69, her family has confirmed. She died on Wednesday at her home in Kentucky "surrounded by her family and friends ...

2021年12月15日 · Hua Hsu writes about the critic and scholar bell hooks, who died this week, and how she rewrote our understanding of Black feminism and womanhood, and gave a generation of readers a new way of...

hooks was the author of over 30 books, including Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the 20 most influential books published in 20 years; Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984); Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1991), winner of the American Book Award/Before Columbus ...