Communion eBook

Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021), known by the pseudonym bell hooks, graduated in English Literature from Stanford University and received her doctorate from the University of California with a thesis dedicated to the work of the American writer Toni Morrison. An academic, feminist, and social activist, she is now an indispensable author, with more than thirty published titles. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of race, social class, and gender, and the ways in which these categories produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination, reinforcing the patriarchal capitalist structure. Her book Feminist Theory — From the Margins to the Center It is published by Orfeu Negro editions.