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Bell hooks

1952 - 2021

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Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and class. She used the lower-case spelling of her name to decenter herself and draw attention to her work instead. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bell hooks has received more than 4,545,973 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Bell hooks is the 3,461st most popular writer (down from 2,647th in 2019), the 4,426th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,461st in 2019) and the 367th most popular American Writer.

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  • 4.5M

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  • 51.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sisters of the Yam
African American women, Self-esteem in women, Mental health
In *Sisters of the Yam*, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self-recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of self-healing and the need to be ever vigilant in the struggle for equality, *Sisters of the Yam* continues to speak to the experience of black womanhood.
1993
Feminist theory
Attitudes, African American women, Feminist theory
1984
Ain't I a Woman
Afro-American women, Blacks, anti-capitalism
A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.
1981
Communion
Man-woman relationships, Self-perception in women, Social conditions
2002
Feminism Is for Everybody
Feminist theory, Feminisme, Sex discrimination against women
2000
Talking back
Feminism, African American women, Afro-American women
1989

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bell hooks ranks 3,461 out of 7,302. Before her are Frédéric Dard, Nemesianus, Akazome Emon, Peter Straub, Mercedes de Acosta, and Doria Shafik. After her are Laurence Oliphant, Gioconda Belli, Carl Robert Jakobson, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, H.D., and Merab Kostava.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Bell hooks ranks 233. Before her are Javier Urruticoechea, Pat Cox, Adi Shamir, Lazar Ristovski, Bora Đorđević, and John Finn. After her are Benny Urquidez, Yasuhiko Okudera, Jeff Lindsay, Abdalá Bucaram, Gabriele Oriali, and Kim Stanley Robinson. Among people deceased in 2021, Bell hooks ranks 255. Before her are Henri Schwery, B. J. Thomas, Norman Lloyd, Milkha Singh, Tahir Salahov, and Jaime Lerner. After her are James Michael Tyler, Colin Bell, Charles Konan Banny, John Magufuli, Carlos Correia, and Dimitri Kitsikis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bell hooks ranks 4,426 out of 20,380. Before her are John Finn (1952), Claire Danes (1979), Elmer Drew Merrill (1876), W. Averell Harriman (1891), Billie Burke (1884), and Mayim Bialik (1975). After her are Alan Wilson (1943), Bud Abbott (1897), Cynthia Rhodes (1956), H.D. (1886), Clarence Clemons (1942), and Gordon Bunshaft (1909).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Bell hooks ranks 367. Before her are Booker T. Washington (1856), Betty Mahmoody (1945), Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Peter Straub (1943), and Mercedes de Acosta (1892). After her are H.D. (1886), Octavia E. Butler (1947), Gary Snyder (1930), Jonathan Littell (1967), Jeff Lindsay (1952), and Dennis Lehane (1965).

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