Bell Hooks Research Paper
bell hooks is the pen name of feminist, American author, and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins. She stylized her name by using small cased letters (ex…bell hooks), and it is an eye catching monogram derived from her maternal grandmother Bell Blair Hooks. “She put the name in lowercase letters “to distinguish [herself from] her grandmother. She said that her unconventional lowercasing of her name signifies what is most important is her works: the “substance of books, not who I am” (bell; 2). Besides, and by most normal standards she’s a workhorse plus very dedicated to school, English, and feminism in society. Gloria Jean Watkins (9/25/1952) earlier life was mostly devoted to school and helping others to understand English, which was her forte. She was the 6th daughter of working-class family of 9, and had one brother. They lived in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and while growing up Gloria (bell hooks) liked to read a lot, and liked to write too. “Her
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She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films, and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism” (Wikipedia; 1). “Postmodern feminism's major departure from other branches of feminism is perhaps the argument that sex, or at least gender is itself constructed through language, a view notably propounded in Judith Butler's 1990 book, Gender Trouble. She (Judith Butler) draws on and critiques the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, as well as on Luce Irigaray's argument that what we conventionally regard as 'feminine' is only a reflection of what is constructed as masculine”( Postmodern;
She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films, and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism” (Wikipedia; 1). “Postmodern feminism's major departure from other branches of feminism is perhaps the argument that sex, or at least gender is itself constructed through language, a view notably propounded in Judith Butler's 1990 book, Gender Trouble. She (Judith Butler) draws on and critiques the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, as well as on Luce Irigaray's argument that what we conventionally regard as 'feminine' is only a reflection of what is constructed as masculine”( Postmodern;