Feminist Scholar bell hooks Dies at 69

Dec. 15, 2021

The feminist writer and student doorbell hooks, whose best-known publication was "Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism," has died astatine property 69.

Her sister, Gwenda Motley, said the origin of decease was end-stage renal failure, The Washington Post reported. Hooks died astatine her location successful Berea, KY, wherever she had served arsenic Distinguished Professor successful Residence successful Appalachian Studies astatine Berea College.

Besides “Ain’t I a Woman?” hooks wrote much than 30 books. Her writings broadened the feminist movement, which was often considered lone for achromatic middle-class and upper-class women, according to The Post’s article. In 2020, Time mag included her successful its “100 Women of the Year,” calling her a “rare stone prima of a nationalist intellectual.”

Other notable books by hooks were “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love;” “Communion: The Female Search for Love;” and “Feminism Is For Everybody.”

Berea College, successful a statement astir her death, said hooks was calved Gloria Jean Watkins successful Hopkinsville, KY, and adopted the lower lawsuit pen name doorbell hooks “based connected the names of her parent and grandmother, to stress the value of the substance of her penning arsenic opposed to who she is.”

Hooks earned her bachelor’s grade from Stanford University, her master’s astatine the University of Wisconsin, and her doctorate from the University of California astatine Santa Cruz. She taught astatine Stanford, Yale, the City College of New York, and different colleges and universities earlier going to Berea successful 2004.

She dedicated her papers to Berea College successful 2017, “ensuring that aboriginal generations of Bereans volition cognize her enactment and the interaction she had connected the intersections of race, gender, place, people and sexuality. The pursuing year, she was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame,” Berea said.