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Bell Hooks

Biographical

This is a very good general start page at the Voices From the Gaps site. There, you'll find photos of hooks and book covers, a biography, a bibliography, and some related links.

Here's a brief biography, photo, some links, and a bibliography. What are some of the major differences between this page and the one above?

This page, prepared by the organizers of a talk she gave, contains a portrait of hooks and some other biographical information.

Cultural

Read this book review for Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. What did you learn about the book from reading the review? What kinds of things would you have to consult the book itself to find out?

Would you like to put hooks's work into a broader cultural and political context? Study this page of suggested readings for black feminists and you'll be on your way.

You probably know that bell hooks is a pen name. Curious about some other famous ones? Click over to this list and see how many you recognize.

This page contains a review and some other information about bell hooks on Video: Cultural Criticism & Transformation. Can you tell if your library has a copy using the computer you're working on now?

Bibliographical

The author discusses the politics of literacy in this interview conducted for the journal JAC in 1994.

Ready for some more work by hooks? Like to use etext? Great! Here's an essay called “Postmodern Blackness” which originally appeared in Postmodern Culture.

Interested in pursuing the author's views about capitalism and patriarchy? Check out this interview in which hooks discusses these issues at some length.