벨 훅스

소개

글로리아 진 왓킨스(Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952년 9월 25일~2021년 12월 15일)는 필명 벨 훅스(bell hooks)로 잘 알려진 미국의 작가, 사회운동가, 페미니스트이다.

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Her work served as foundational to the modern idea of intersectionality. She published numerous scholarly articles and nearly 40 books, in styles ranging from essays and poetry to children's literature, with a body of work that addressed love, gender, art, history, sexuality, and mass media.