But hooks wondered 'how we expect people who work every day to come home and read these ten- and twenty-page essays we're taught to write in the academy.' She aimed to 'write a kind of book.

Other well-known titles by hooks include The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Outlaw Culture All About Love: New Visions Feminism Is for Everyone and Teaching To Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom.īut hooks was not just a prolific writer, she was also a voracious reader, at one time reading as much as a book a day. Wounded, at times persecuted and abused, I found the life of the mind a refuge, a sanctuary where I could experience a sense of agency and thereby construct my own subject identity.' Constantly persecuted and punished in our family, my attempts to understand my lot pushed me in the direction of critical analytical thought. She said this constant oppression shaped her development as a writer: 'Growing up in a segregated, Southern, poor and working-class community. Her father, harsh and patriarchal, maintained discipline through violence.

In Breaking Bread, hooks discusses growing up as the fourth of seven children in a segregated and all-Black Southern neighborhood. hooks had been unwell with an unspecified illness and was surrounded by friends and relatives when she passed. Her death was confirmed by her niece Ebony Motley in a tweet.

Celebrated feminist author, teacher, cultural critic, and public intellectual bell hooks died on Wednesday, December 15, at her home in Berea, Kentucky.

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