She taught at USC, Stanford, Yale, Oberlin and the City College of New York before returning home to Kentucky in 2004 as the Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College. She earned her MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her PhD at UC Santa Cruz, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on Toni Morrison. She was 69.īorn Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Ky., hooks adopted her pen name as a tribute to her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, choosing lowercase letters in a bid to prioritize her work over her individual identity. On December 15, hooks, ’73, died at her home in Berea, Ky., of kidney failure. Her body of work, which spans five decades and more than three dozen books, encompassed feminist and race theory, poetry, literary and film criticism, pedagogy and children’s literature. A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics by one of feminism's most important and critical voices Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Celebrated as a breakthrough cultural critic for challenging feminism’s racial defaults, bell hooks embraced expansive interests as a thinker and a prolific writer.

This new edition includes an original preface by the author that brings it up to date. In order to fulfil its revolutionary potential, feminist theory must begin by consciously transforming its own definition to encompass the lives and ideas of women on the margin. A leading cultural critic, she contends that feminism has not succeeded in creating a mass movement against sexism because the foundation of the women's movement has not fully accounted for the complexity and diversity of female experience.

In this updated text of sexual politics, bell hooks argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the future.

Feminism from margin to center