American writer and activist bell hooks has died. She was 69 and had been ill for some time: she passed away at her home in Berea, Kentucky. Becoming an icon of contemporary feminism, in her career, she has published more than 30 books addressing issues such as sexuality, patriarchy, and racial inequalities.
Writer and intellectual bell hooks, as everyone called herself, died at her home in Berea, Kentucky at the age of 69. Born in the United States in Hopkinsville, on September 25, 1952, with the name of Gloria Jean Watkins, she was known under the pseudonym of bell hooks, inspired by her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. Over her career, she has published more than 30 books as well as numerous academic articles in which she has addressed issues such as race, class, and gender in education, sexuality, and feminism.
Fourth of seven siblings, bell hooks, after attending separate schools in Christian County, continued her studies at Stanford University in California before earning a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in literature from the University of California at Santa. Cruz.
The pseudonym of the great-grandmother adopted at the beginning of her career has always written in lowercase because, she said, “it emphasizes the substance of the books, not who I am”. Her first book dates back to 1981 when she published “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism”, which was followed by more than 30 essays, poems, and children’s books. Feminism, racism, culture, politics, gender roles,
Berea College, where she has taught since 2004, opened the bell hooks Institute at Berea College six years later which houses its collection of contemporary African American art, personal artifacts, and copies of her books published in other languages.
Among her most famous books is “Feminism is for everyone”, winner of the essays in the quality ranking of L’indiscreto, published in Italy by Tamu who also published “Elogio del margin”, “Tutto sull’amore” was published by Feltrinelli, while ” Insegnare a trasgredire” was published in Italy by Meltemi.
The cause was end-stage renal failure, said her sister Gwenda Motley.
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