Her original name was Gloria Jean Watkins and she is considered one of the most important feminist writers and theorists of her generation. He has died at the age of 69 at his home in Kentucky.
The writer, teacher and activist Bell Hooks, a benchmark for African-American feminism in the United States, died this Wednesday at her home in Berea (Kentucky) at the age of 69, as reported on Wednesday by her family and the university for which she worked as a teacher.
In a statement, Berea College has indicated that Hooks has died “after a long illness”, while his relatives indicated in another note that he died early this Wednesday.
With more than forty works, Hooks is considered as one of the most important feminist writers and theorists of his generation.
According to the newspaper The Washington PostHer work redefined feminism in the United States and broadened the movement, which has often been perceived in that country as an instrument of upper and middle-class white women.
Born on September 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville (Kentucky) under the name of Gloria Jean Watkins He grew up in a family of seven siblings and attended racially segregated schools.
Later he studied at the Universities of Wisconsin, Stanford (California) and the one of California in Santa Cruz, where studied English and received a doctorate in Literature.
Watkins adopted the pseudonym Bell Hooks, in honor of her so-called great-grandmother, to, as she described in an interview, emphasize the “substance of the books,” not who she was.
He published his first work, a collection of poems entitled And There We Wept, under the name Bell Hooks in 1978.
In 1981, he took out Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, which examines the nature of black feminism through the lens of sexism and slavery; a subject that he re-analyzed in books such as Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Y Feminism is for Everybody.
Wrote more than 40 works that include essays, children’s books and poetry, in addition to touching a multitude of topics that go from feminism to racism, going through culture, politics, love and spirituality.
In his books, he mixes personal opinions with politics when addressing issues as varied as the representation of blacks in movies, the nature of love or the analysis of Madonna’s music videos.
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