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With the death of bell hooks, a generation of feminists lost a foundational figure
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A groundbreaking feminist thinker, writer and activist, bell hooks was clearly uninterested in being safe, respectable or acceptable, and charted a career on her own terms.
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bell hooks, acclaimed author, feminist, dies at 69
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With the death of bell hooks, a generation of feminists lost a foundational figure
bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined made her among the most influential thinkers of her time, has died. She was 69.
bell hooks, the author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwine made her among the most influential feminist thinkers of her time, has died.
The prolific author, poet, cultural critic, feminist and professor, who wrote more than three dozen wide-ranging books, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky.
bell hooks, the trailblazing public intellectual who shaped much of the current conversation around gender, race, class and justice in the U.S. has passed
The influential critic, author and feminist bell hooks died Wednesday at the age of 69. She was at home, surrounded by friends and family. Amna Nawaz looks at her work and legacy.
bell hooks influenced influencers, inspired many considered inspirational; and educated educators, but she drew a line at disappearing into a life as the
Through her scholarship and criticism, hooks, who died this week, rewrote our understanding of Black feminism and womanhood, and gave a generation of readers a new way of looking at the world.
By imploring feminism to be something other than thin and white, she forced America to take a look in the mirror at how it treats the most vulnerable part of its population.
