bell hooks (1952–2021)

Author of All About Love: New Visions

Includes the names: bel hooks, bell hooks, Bull Hooks -, ベルフックス, Autor(Es): Hooks Bell, By (author) Bell Hooks, By (author) Bell Hooks

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A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks best known for classic books including Ain't I a Woman, Bone Black, All About Love, Rock My Soul, Belonging, We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real, hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky. — biography from Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center… (more)

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bell hooks (uncapitalized intentionally) is the pen name of social and feminist activist and author Gloria Jean Watkins.

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Love Song to the Nation

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Works by bell hooks

All About Love: New Visions 2,003 copies, 35 reviews

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 1,595 copies, 32 reviews

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom 1,482 copies, 16 reviews

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center 1,263 copies, 8 reviews

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 1,200 copies, 14 reviews

Killing Rage: Ending Racism 682 copies, 5 reviews

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love 669 copies, 10 reviews

Black Looks: Race and Representation 553 copies, 6 reviews

Where We Stand: Class Matters 526 copies, 5 reviews

Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations 462 copies, 4 reviews

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood 461 copies, 3 reviews

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black 448 copies, 2 reviews

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope 446 copies, 1 review

Communion: The Female Search for Love 443 copies, 4 reviews

Skin Again 432 copies, 58 reviews

Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics 395 copies, 1 review

Happy to Be Nappy 321 copies, 25 reviews

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery 285 copies, 2 reviews

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom 271 copies, 2 reviews

Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life 270 copies, 3 reviews

Salvation: Black People and Love 251 copies

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics 211 copies, 2 reviews

Reel to Real: Race, Class, and Sex at the Movies 210 copies

Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life 199 copies

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity 188 copies, 4 reviews

Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work 188 copies, 1 review

Homemade Love: Picture Book 178 copies, 21 reviews

Belonging: A Culture of Place 176 copies, 1 review

Be Boy Buzz 167 copies, 6 reviews

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem 144 copies, 1 review

Grump Groan Growl 120 copies, 6 reviews

Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism 90 copies

Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place 66 copies, 2 reviews

Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice 61 copies

When Angels Speak of Love 51 copies

A Woman's Mourning Song 38 copies

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue 12 copies

Changing the Subject: Painting and Prints 1992-94 10 copies

Be Love, Baby Love 10 copies

bell hooks: cultural criticism and transformation 8 copies

Ensinando Comunidade (Em Portugues do Brasil) 7 copies

Marcia Lippman Sacred Encounters: East and West 6 copies

bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last… 5 copies, 1 review

Lieben lernen - Alles über Verbundenheit (German Edition) 4 copies

And There We Wept 4 copies

Understanding Patriarchy 4 copies

Tout le monde peut être féministe 3 copies

Revolutionary Parenting 3 copies

Bell Hooks Tivoli Turnhalle 3/5/04 2 copies

FEMINISME ES PER A TOTHOM,EL 2 copies

In Solidarity: A Conversation 2 copies

Respondona: Pensamiento feminista, pensamiento negro 2 copies, 2 reviews

Be Boy Buzz, Grump Groan Growl, Skin Again 2 copies

Black Looks (2nd Edition): Race and Representation 2 copies

Negro hueso : recuerdos de infancia 1 copy

Ranheta Ruge Rosna (Em Portugues do Brasil) 1 copy

Talking Back (2nd Edition): Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black 1 copy

Comunión: La búsqueda femenina del amor 1 copy

Tutto sull'amore 1 copy, 1 review

Hep Aska Dair 1 copy

Soul Sister : Women, Friendship, and Fulfillment 1 copy

bell hooks e eu não sou uma mulher? MULHERES NEGRAS E FEMINISMO 1 copy

Dazugehören: Über eine Kultur der Verortung 1 copy

Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance 1 copy

Postmodern Blackness 1 copy

Da che parte stiamo: la classe conta 1 copy

COMMUNION (THE FEMALE SEARCH FOR LOVE) " Uplifting...is a superbly… 1 copy

Seduction and Surrender 1 copy

Scrivere al buio 1 copy

A Little Bit About Love: An Excerpt From "All About Love" by bell hooks 1 copy

Feminism and militarism : A comment 1 copy

Theory as Liberatory Practice 1 copy

Tearing out the root of self-hatred: racism plays upon low self-esteem… 1 copy

Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism 1 copy

Doing It for Daddy {article} 1 copy, 1 review

Il femminismo è per tutti. Una politica appassionata 1 copy

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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (Contributor) 500 copies

Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of… (Contributor) 421 copies, 5 reviews

Angry Women (Contributor) 356 copies, 3 reviews

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy… (Contributor) 290 copies, 4 reviews

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (Contributor) 224 copies, 1 review

Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (Contributor) 199 copies, 1 review

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by… (Contributor) 154 copies

Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology (Contributor) 140 copies, 1 review

Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction (Contributor) 121 copies

Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by… (Contributor) 119 copies, 3 reviews

Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (Contributor) 111 copies, 2 reviews

Women Respond to the Men's Movement: A Feminist Collection (Contributor) 99 copies

Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (Contributor) 90 copies, 2 reviews

Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (Contributor) 88 copies

Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (Contributor) 83 copies

Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (Contributor) 78 copies

Constructing Masculinity (Contributor) 74 copies, 1 review

The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review

Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the… (Contributor) 66 copies

Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art (Contributor) 63 copies, 1 review

Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (Contributor) 62 copies

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness (Contributor) 56 copies

Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (Contributor) 45 copies

I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (Contributor) 33 copies

Sister to Sister (Contributor) 33 copies

Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship and the State (Contributor) 27 copies

Discrimination: Opposing Viewpoints (1997) (Contributor) 23 copies

A Second Skin: Women Write about Clothes (Contributor) 17 copies, 1 review

Bittersweet (Contributor) 10 copies

Inspired Lives: The Best of Real Life Yoga from Ascent Magazine (Contributor, some editions) 9 copies

The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic… (Contributor) 8 copies

Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte (Contributor) 5 copies

Hillbilly [2018 documentary film] (Actor) 1 copy

Hambone, No. 3 (Contributor) 1 copy

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