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

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.

The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode).

Keywords: autobiography, bell hooks, subjectivity, woman, feminism.

Aneta Ostaszewska (dr. habil.) – is a feminist scholar and researcher, working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization at the University of Warsaw. Director of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research. She works at the intersection of social sciences and cultural studies. Her research is concerned with women’s auto/biographies and (in)equality politics. She is interested in contemporary cultural and social phenomena, with particular emphasis on women’s rights and gender issues.