Feminist Scholar bell hooks Dies at 69

Dec. 15, 2021

The feminist writer and scholar bell hooks, whose best-known e-book was “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism,” has died at age 69.

Her sister, Gwenda Motley, stated the reason for loss of life was end-stage renal failure, The Washington Post reported. Hooks died at her residence in Berea, KY, the place she had served as Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College.

Besides “Ain’t I a Woman?” hooks wrote greater than 30 books. Her writings broadened the feminist motion, which was typically thought of just for white middle-class and upper-class ladies, in keeping with The Post’s article. In 2020, Time journal included her in its “100 Women of the Year,” calling her a “rare rock star of a public intellectual.”

Other notable books by hooks have been “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love;” “Communion: The Female Search for Love;” and “Feminism Is For Everybody.”

Berea College, in an announcement about her loss of life, stated hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, KY, and adopted the decrease case pen title 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.”

Hooks earned her bachelor’s diploma from Stanford University, her grasp’s on the University of Wisconsin, and her doctorate from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She taught at Stanford, Yale, the City College of New York, and different faculties and universities earlier than going to Berea in 2004.

She devoted her papers to Berea College in 2017, “ensuring that future generations of Bereans will know her work and the impact she had on the intersections of race, gender, place, class and sexuality. The following year, she was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame,” Berea stated.

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The Washington Post: “bell hooks, trailblazing Black feminist and social critic, dies at 69”

 

Berea College. “Statement on the death of bell hooks from Berea College”

 

Berea College. “bell hooks”

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