bell hooks

1952–2021 · Cultural critic and feminist author

bell hooks was the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, a cultural critic and teacher whose writing connected race, gender and class. Her books include Ain’t I a Woman and Teaching to Transgress; she made accessible feminist education and the practice of love central subjects of her work.

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“Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression”

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“The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity”

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“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women”

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