Bell Hooks Books Ranked. In “ain’t i a woman,” hooks writes about feminist history and theory in relation to a racial experience. Insurgent black intellectual life, south end press, 1991.
10 books based on 1 votes: Born gloria jean watkins in hopkinsville, kentucky, she has chosen the lower case pen name bell hooks, based on the names of her mother and grandmother, to emphasize the importance of the substance of her writing as opposed to who she is. That like many women of her generation, she hesitated when it came to aligning herself with feminist.
Hooks, bell, and cornel west, breaking bread:
Thinking feminist, thinking black, south end press, 1989. Yet sandberg confesses to readers that she has not been a strong advocate of feminist movement; Race, gender and cultural politics, south end press, 1990. An interview with bell hooks, author of feminism is for everybody: