Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

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...

Manning Marable was a leading historian of African American life and politics. His major work, Freedom on My Mind, is a widely used textbook on the subject. He also wrote important biographies and analyses of Black liberation movements.