Becoming bell hooks. A story about the self-empowerment of a Black girl who became a feminist

This book is the story of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), a Black woman from a small town in Kentucky who became a bell hooks – a feminist icon, one of the most significant and courageous voices of the contemporary debates on racial discrimination, feminism, and women’s and minority rights. The aut...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Ostaszewska, Aneta
التنسيق: Online
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: University of Warsaw Press 2025
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/162711
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الملخص:This book is the story of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), a Black woman from a small town in Kentucky who became a bell hooks – a feminist icon, one of the most significant and courageous voices of the contemporary debates on racial discrimination, feminism, and women’s and minority rights. The author focuses on the autobiographical dimension of bell hooks’ essays – it is a story about “biographical work” of a woman who creates herself in the course of writing her autobiography.