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Ain't I a Woman

  • 206 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1981
  • 17 editions

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1 About this book

A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote Ain't I a Woman (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.

  • History
  • Racism
  • Social science
  • Discrimination & Race Relations
  • Afro-American women
  • Blacks
  • Women
  • African American women

2 About bell hooks

1952–2021

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. - modified from Wikipedia

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