bell hooks

Author · 46 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

Eating the Other

Desire and Resistance

2025

Belonging

A Culture of Place

2004

Outlaw Culture

Resisting Representations

1994

Yearning

Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

1990

Wounds of Passion

1997

Teaching Community

A Pedagogy of Hope

2002

Soul Sister

Women, Friendship, And Fulfillment

2007

Homemade Love

2002

Writing Beyond Race

Living Theory and Practice

2012

Sororité

Guérir des blessures psychiques infligées par la domination

2024

Theory as Liberatory Practice

1991

Elogio del margine / Scrivere al buio

2020

Killing Rage

1995

The Will to Change

Men, Masculinity, and Love

2003

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