List of Feminist Rhetoricians - Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks

(born September 25, 1952) Bell Hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins and is a social activist who is internationally known. Her works focus on race, class, and gender and the oppression by, and of, each.

  • "Homeplace (a site of resistance)" (1990)

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Famous quotes by bell hooks:

    Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.
    bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
    bell hooks (b. 1955)

    Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.
    bell hooks (b. c. 1955)