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Becoming bell hooks. A story about the self-empowerment of a Black girl who became a feminist

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticlePublication details: Warsaw University of Warsaw Press 2023Description: 1 electronic resource (162 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 978-83-235-6217-7
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: This book is the story of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), a Black woman from a small town in Kentucky who became a bell hooks – a feminist icon, one of the most significant and courageous voices of the contemporary debates on racial discrimination, feminism, and women's and minority rights. The author focuses on the autobiographical dimension of bell hooks' essays – it is a story about "biographical work" of a woman who creates herself in the course of writing her autobiography.
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This book is the story of Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), a Black woman from a small town in Kentucky who became a bell hooks – a feminist icon, one of the most significant and courageous voices of the contemporary debates on racial discrimination, feminism, and women's and minority rights. The author focuses on the autobiographical dimension of bell hooks' essays – it is a story about "biographical work" of a woman who creates herself in the course of writing her autobiography.

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