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bell hooks, author, social activist and feminist theorist

bell hooks, feminist theorist
bell hooks, feminist theorist

On 15 December 2021, influential Black author, social activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born into a working-class family in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, then still racially segregated.

At 19, while going to university, she began writing her first major work: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. She would go on to write over 30 books across her life, touching on subjects such as art, class, community, gender, history, intersectionality, love, mass media, pedagogy, race, sexuality, and more, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

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