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Bell hooks the will to change6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Hooks has spent her career studying and teaching the intersections of race, gender, and class from a feminist perspective as a tenured professor at the University of Southern California, Oberlin College, and Berea College, where she founded the bell hooks Institute in 2014. Her pen name is stylized in lowercase so as to divert attention away from her as an individual and towards her ideas, as well as to highlight the matriarchal line of her family. It was at this time that she assumed her pen name, which is an homage to her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks began her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, as an undergraduate, which was published during her PhD in 1981. She earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1973 and her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1976, followed by a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983, all in English literature. Bell hooks (née Gloria Jean Watkins) was born on Septemin rural Hopkinsville, KY as one of seven children. ![]()
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