Bell Hooks

Gloria Jean Watkins (nacida el 25 de Septiembre de 1952 en Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Estados Unidos), conocida como bell hooks (escrito en minúsculas)^[1] es una prolífica escritora y activista feminista.

Sus trabajos se centran principalmente en el estudio de sistemas de dominación y opresión, en particular aquellos asociados a la imbricación de aspectos tales como la raza, la clase social y el género.

Ha publicado más de treinta libros y gran cantidad de artículos académicos, así como participado en multitud de ponencias. Además ha realizado varias breves apariciones en documentales.

Bibliografía seleccionada

• Otras inapropiables. Feminismos desde las fronteras (2004) ISBN 84-932982-5-5
• Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism (1981) ISBN 0-89608-129-X
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) ISBN 0-89608-614-3
• Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989) ISBN 0-921284-09-8
• Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990) ISBN 0-921284-34-9
• Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991) (with Cornel West) ISBN 0-89608-414-0
• Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992) ISBN 0-89608-433-7
• Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-recovery (1993) ISBN 1-896357-99-7
• Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom (1994)ISBN 0-415-90808-6
• Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994) ISBN 0-415-90811-6
• Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (1995) ISBN 1-56584-263-4
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995) ISBN 0-8050-5027-2
• Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996) ISBN 0-8050-5512-6
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996)
• Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (1997) ISBN 0-8050-5722-6
• Happy to be Nappy (1999) ISBN 0-7868-0427-0
• Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (1999) ISBN 0-8050-5910-5
• All About Love: New Visions (2000) ISBN 0-06-095947-9
• Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000) ISBN 0-89608-629-1
• Where We Stand: Class Matters (2000) ISBN-13: 9780415929134
• Salvation: Black People and Love (2001) ISBN 0-06-095949-5
• Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002) ISBN 0-06-093829-3
• Homemade Love (2002) ISBN 0-7868-0643-5
• Be Boy Buzz (2002) ISBN 0-7868-0814-4
• Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-esteem (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5605-X
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5607-6
• Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003) ISBN 0-415-96817-8
• We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity(2004) ISBN 0-415-96926-3
• Skin Again (2004) ISBN 0-7868-0825-X
• Space (2004) ISBN 0-415-96816-X
• Soul Sister: Women, Friendship, and Fulfillment (2005) ISBN 0-89608-735-2
• Witness (2006) ISBN 0-89608-759-X
• Justice: Childhood Love Lessons (2000)

Apariciones en documentales

• Black Is, Black Ain't (1994)
• Give a Damn Again (1995)
• Cultural Criticism and Transformation (1997)
• My Feminism (1997)
• I am a Man: Black masculinity in America (2004)
• Voices of Power (1999)
• Baadasssss Cinema (2002)
• Writing About a Revolution: A talk (2004)
• Happy to Be Nappy and other stories of me (2004)
• Is Feminism Dead? (2004)

Referencias

Lecturas adicionales

• Florence, Namulundah. Bell Hooks's Engaged Pedagogy. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. ISBN 0-89789-564-9
• Leitch et al, eds. "Bell Hooks." The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. 2475-2484. ISBN 0-393-97429-4
• South End Press Collective, eds. "Critical Consciousness for Political Resistance"Talking About a Revolution.Cambridge: South End Press, 1998. 39-52. ISBN 0-89608-587-2
• Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto, ed. Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998. ISBN 0-252-02361-7
• Wallace, Michelle. Black Popular Culture. New York: The New Press, 1998. ISBN 1-56584-459-9

Enlaces externos

• Wikiquote alberga frases célebres de o sobre Bell Hooks. Wikiquote
• All About Bell (biography, interviews, articles, and book information)
• Crossing Boundaries, Reaching Out: The Public Scholarship of Bell Hooks (article by Alice Marwick)
• Ejournal website (several critical resources for Bell Hooks)
• Real Change News (interview with Hooks by Rosette Royale)
• Shambhala Sun (articles by Hooks published in Shambhala Sun Magazine)
• South End Press (books by Hooks published by South End Press)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (biographical sketch of Hooks)
• "Postmodern Blackness" (article by Hooks)
• Whole Terrain (articles by Hooks published in Whole Terrain)
• Z Magazine - Challenging Capitalism & Patriarchy (interviews with Hooks by Third World Viewpoint)
• Ingredients of Love (an interview with ascent magazine)