Bell hooks (real name Gloria Jean Watkins) is a renowned thinker, writer, and social critic who shaped intellectual conversations about race, feminism, classism, and patriarchy. The American ...

Born Gloria Jean Watkins - she adopted her pen name from her great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks - choosing lowercase letters ...

Kentucky-based author and feminist bell hooks has died at age 69. hooks, whose real name was Gloria Jean Watkins, had an undisclosed illness and was with friends and family when she died on ...