Gloria Jean Watkins

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Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an influential American author, feminist theorist, and cultural critic whose work focused on race, gender, class, and intersectionality.

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instanceOf author
cultural critic
educator
essayist
feminist theorist
human
social activist
birthName Gloria Jean Watkins NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1952-09-25
dateOfDeath 2021-12-15
educatedAt Stanford University
University of California, Santa Cruz NERFINISHED
University of Wisconsin–Madison
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
familyName Watkins NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork class analysis
cultural criticism
education
feminist theory
gender studies
intersectionality
race studies
gender female
givenName Gloria NERFINISHED
influenced contemporary Black feminist thought
intersectional feminist theory
influencedBy Sojourner Truth NERFINISHED
bell hooks' great-grandmother (namesake "Bell Hooks")
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Black feminism NERFINISHED
intersectional feminism
womanism
notableWork Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism NERFINISHED
All About Love: New Visions NERFINISHED
Black Looks: Race and Representation NERFINISHED
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center NERFINISHED
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black NERFINISHED
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom NERFINISHED
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics NERFINISHED
occupation professor
public intellectual
writer
penName bell hooks NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Berea, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED
taughtAt Berea College NERFINISHED
City College of New York NERFINISHED
Oberlin College NERFINISHED
Yale University NERFINISHED
writingStyle lowercase pen name "bell hooks" to emphasize ideas over identity

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bell hooks birthName Gloria Jean Watkins