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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: BELL HOOKSadmin2021-12-21T14:24:44-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

bell hooks

September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021

“No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough.”   ― bell hooks

Author, critic, feminist and public intellectual. B.A., Stanford University, 1973; M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983.  In 1981, hooks published her first major work Ain’t I a Woman? – one of the most important texts in feminist studies. 

Photo 1. ain’t i a woman, black women and feminism, by bell hooks, 1981. Photo 2. With Gloria Steinem. 

More About bell:

  • “Remembering bell hooks & Her Critique of ‘Imperialist White Supremacist Heteropatriarchy,'” Democracy Now!, December 17, 2021
  • Obituary
    • Statement on the death of bell hooks from Berea College
  • Select interviews
    • “Tough Love With bell hooks” – the prolific writer, thinker, and scholar discusses self-love and how we can honestly assess our own value, by Abigail Bereola, shondaland.com, December, 2017 
    • “In Conversation with bell hooks and Emma Watson,” papermag.com, February, 2016
    • “Discussing the black female and modern day feminism with bell hooks,” by i-D Staff and Lynette Nylander, September, 2016
    • “Agent of Change: An Interview with bell hooks,” by Helen Tworkov, tricycle.org, 1992
  • bell hooks profile, Wisconsin Women Making History
  • C-SPAN appearances
  • bell hooks wikipedia page

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