1952-09-25 Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
Becoming bell hooks | 2024-02-27 | ||
Hillbilly | Self | 2018-05-19 | |
bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice | Self | 2014-08-15 | |
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me | Self | 2004-02-24 | |
BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | 2002-08-14 | |
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America | Self | 1998-08-04 | |
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation | Self | 1997-01-01 | |
My Feminism | Self | 1997-10-17 | |
Black Is… Black Ain’t | Self | 1994-06-01 |