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Wounds of Passion
bell hooks
Synopsis "Wounds of Passion"
"bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence." --Gloria SteinemWith her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell hooks traces her writer's journey in Wounds of Passion. She shares the difficulties and triumphs, the pleasures and the dangers, of a life devoted to writing. hooks lets readers see the ways one woman writer can find her own voice while forging relationships of love in keeping with her feminist thinking. With unflinching courage and hard-won wisdom, hooks reveals the intimate details and provocative ideas of the life path she carved out of words, lighting the way for all writers who would tread in her wake. This memoir is an illuminating vision of a writer's life from one of America's treasured authors."I love this book. Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." --Maya Angelou
(Kentucky, 1952-2021) Gloria Jean Watkins, conocida bajo el seudónimo de bell hook (que adoptó en honor a su bisabuela Bell Blair Hooks), es una escritora, feminista y activista social estadounidense. El enfoque de su escritura ha sido la interseccionalidad entre raza, clase y género, y lo que ella describe como su capacidad para producir y perpetuar sistemas de opresión y dominación de clase. Ha publicado más de 40 libros y numerosos artículos académicos, ha aparecido en documentales y participado en conferencias públicas. Se ha ocupado de la raza, la clase y el género en la educación, el arte, la historia, la sexualidad, los medios de comunicación y el feminismo. En 2014, fundó el Instituto bell hooks en Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.
