![]() ![]() But her work was also driven by empathy and a drive to understand the impact of social oppression on personal development. ![]() hooks would go on to write more than 30 books focused on such topics as feminist theory, black masculinity, and patriarchy. She took the pen name bell hooks to honor the memory of her great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. Hooks published her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press), an examination of impact of racism and sexism on black women, in 1981. She graduated from Stanford University in 1973 and received a doctorate in English from the University of California, Santa Cruz (her dissertation was on nobel laureate and novelist Toni Morrison), in 1983. Hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Ky., and educated in Jim Crow era public schools in the period prior to racial integration. ![]()
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