![]() ![]() In Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) she wrote: “feminism must become a mass based political movement if it is to have a revolutionary, transformative impact on society.” While she has a strong academic background, hooks aims to be accessible with her work and address the public. The Institute celebrates and documents her life and work. In 2004, she became a professor in residence at Berea College in Kentucky, where the bell hooks Institute was later founded in 2014. ![]() ![]() Since then, hooks has written over three dozen books, including Bone Black (1996), All About Love (2000), and The Will to Change (2004). The book was published when hooks was 29, and had received her PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She wrote the first draft of her debut, Ain’t I a Woman, when she was a 19 year-old undergraduate student at Stanford University. hooks decided not to capitalize her name to keep the focus on the work rather than herself. She chose her pen name as a tribute to her maternal great-grandmother, showing the importance of female identities and female legacies in her work. 1952), better known as bell hooks, is an American author, professor and activist. Quotes and photos of her books have been prolific on social media, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Women of 2020 and O, The Oprah Magazine published a list of must-read bell hooks books. Bell hooks has been creating compassionate, powerful, inclusive work for a long time, but of late, it’s clear to see that her writing has entered the mainstream discourse. ![]()
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