bell hooks

Author · 62 books

bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern female perspective, she addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.

Books

Washington Square Press The Will to Change.

2026

Ferite di passione

Una vita di scrittura

2025

Culture insurgée

Résister à l'hégémonie culturelle, décoloniser nos imaginaires

2025

Du sexisme en amour

2025

Du sexisme en amour

2025

Regards oppositionnels

Se défaire des représentations dominantes

2025

Classe et race

2025

Eating the Other

Desire and Resistance

2025

Cultiver l'appartenance

2024

Blackness

Résister au racisme

2024

Sororité

Guérir des blessures psychiques infligées par la domination

2024

bell hooks

The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

2023

Breaking Bread

Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

2023

La experiencia del amor

2023

Feminism Is for Everybody

2022

Elogio del margine / Scrivere al buio

2020

Be Love, Baby Love

2020

Pedagogías transgresoras

2020

Uncut Funk

A Contemplative Dialogue

2017

Appalachian Elegy

Poetry and Place

2012

Writing Beyond Race

Living Theory and Practice

2012

Teaching Critical Thinking

Practical Wisdom

2009

Grump Groan Growl

2008

Soul Sister

Women, Friendship, And Fulfillment

2007

Homegrown

Engaged Cultural Criticism

2006

When Angels Speak of Love

2005

Understanding Patriarchy

2004

Skin Again

2004

Belonging

A Culture of Place

2004

Otras inapropiables

feminismos desde las fronteras

2004

The Will to Change

Men, Masculinity, and Love

2003

We Real Cool

Black Men and Masculinity

2003

Rock My Soul

Black People and Self-Esteem

2002

Teaching Community

A Pedagogy of Hope

2002

Be Boy Buzz

2002

Communion

The Female Search for Love

2002

Homemade Love

2002

Toward The Well Being Of Humanity

2002

Salvation

Black People and Love

2001

Feminism Is for Everybody

Passionate Politics

2000

Where We Stand

Class Matters

2000

All About Love

New Visions

1999

remembered rapture

the writer at work

1999

Happy to Be Nappy

1999

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

1998

Talking About a Revolution

Interviews with Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Peter Kwong, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Urvashi Vaid, and Howard Zinn

1998

Wounds of Passion

1997

Reel to Real

Race, class and sex at the movies

1996

Bone Black

Memories of Girlhood

1996

Art on My Mind

Visual Politics

1995