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

A Woman's Mourning Song

1993

Ain't I a Woman

Black Women and Feminism

1981

All About Love

New Visions

1999

Appalachian Elegy

Poetry and Place

2012

Art on My Mind

Visual Politics

1995

Be Boy Buzz

2002

Be Love, Baby Love

2020

Belonging

A Culture of Place

2004

Black Looks

Race and Representation

1992

Blackness

Résister au racisme

2024

Bone Black

Memories of Girlhood

1996

Breaking Bread

Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

1991

Breaking Bread

Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

2023

Classe et race

2025

Communion

The Female Search for Love

2002

Cultiver l'appartenance

2024

Culture insurgée

Résister à l'hégémonie culturelle, décoloniser nos imaginaires

2025

Du sexisme en amour

2025

Du sexisme en amour

2025

Eating the Other

Desire and Resistance

2025

Elogio del margine / Scrivere al buio

2020

Feminism Is for Everybody

2022

Feminism Is for Everybody

Passionate Politics

2000

Feminist Theory

From Margin to Center

1984

Ferite di passione

Una vita di scrittura

2025

Grump Groan Growl

2008

Happy to Be Nappy

1999

Homegrown

Engaged Cultural Criticism

2006

Homemade Love

2002

Killing Rage

1995

La experiencia del amor

2023

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales

1998

Otras inapropiables

feminismos desde las fronteras

2004

Outlaw Culture

Resisting Representations

1994

Pedagogías transgresoras

2020

Reel to Real

Race, class and sex at the movies

1996

Regards oppositionnels

Se défaire des représentations dominantes

2025

Rock My Soul

Black People and Self-Esteem

2002

Salvation

Black People and Love

2001

Sisters of the Yam

Black Women and Self-Recovery

1993

Skin Again

2004

Sororité

Guérir des blessures psychiques infligées par la domination

2024

Soul Sister

Women, Friendship, And Fulfillment

2007

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