bell hooks is an American author, critic, and social activist. As a founder and leader of intersectional feminist theory, her work focuses on the connections between gender, race and class. hooks, a bisexual woman, has published over 30 books, one of her most notable being Ain’t I a Woman? named after Sojourner Truth’s speech.
The main areas of hooks’ study are media, film, education and history. When asked ‘what is a feminist?’, hooks asserts that it is “rooted in neither fear nor fantasy… Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression’.
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