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bell hooks
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bell hooks (25 September 1952 – 15 December 2021) was an author whose works include *Yearning*, *A vontade de mudar*, *Erguer a voz*, *Ain't I a Woman*, and *à propos d'amour*. Her name is stylized in lowercase. She is referenced by 1,371 other encyclopedia articles.
Her writings address themes such as spirituality and gender, including statements that creation spirituality replaced a patriarchal spirituality rooted in notions of fall and redemption, and that Black women control the world. She is associated with 69 works according to Open Library records, while Crossref lists 5 works.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 September 1952
- Died
- 15 December 2021
- Works
- 69
Top works
- Yearning
- A vontade de mudar
- Erguer a voz
- Ain't I a Woman
- à propos d'amour
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 684
- Total plays
- 20,222
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,222x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,802x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I have wanted them to have this simple definition to read again and again so they know: Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”
- “Today’s fashion magazines may carry an article about the dangers of anorexia while bombarding its readers with images of emaciated young bodies representing the height of beauty and desirability.”
- “Creation spirituality replaced a patriarchal spirituality rooted in notions of fall and redemption.”
- “Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to.”
- “Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.”
- “The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not . Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American philosopher, educator, author and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Her work served as foundational to the modern idea of intersectionality. She published numerous scholarly articles and nearly 40 books, in styles ranging from essays and poetry to children's literature, with a body of work that addressed love, gender, art, history, sexuality, and mass media.
She began her academic career in 1976 teaching English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California. She later taught at several institutions including Stanford University, Yale University, New College of Florida, and The City College of New York, before joining Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, in 2004. In 2014, hooks also founded the bell hooks Institute at Berea College. Her pen name was borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, using lowercase to decenter herself and instead maintain focus on the substance of her writings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bell hooks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.