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Ain't I a Woman

Ain't I a Woman

Black Women and Feminism
PoliticsBiography
Pages
205
Published
1981
Language
English

Synopsis

A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote Ain't I a Woman (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.

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bell hooks

bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky; died 2021 in Berea, Kentucky) was an American author, feminist theorist, cultural critic and poet who wrote more than thirty books on race, gender, class, love and teaching. Her pen name, deliberately styled in lower case, honors her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. Her best-known works include Ain't I a Woman, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Teaching to Transgress and All About Love, and she also wrote ch...

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