Wounds of Passion - by Bell Hooks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> bestseller from the award-winning author and celebrated feminist, "<i>Wounds of Passion</i> is bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence."--Gloria Steinem</b> <p/><b>"I love this book. Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us."--Maya Angelou</b> <p/>With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks critically reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on our lives. Resisting the notion that love and writing don't mix, she begins a fifteen-year relationship with a gifted poet and scholar, who inspires and encourages her. Writing the acclaimed book <i>Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism</i> at the age of nineteen, she begins to emerge as a brilliant social critic and public intellectual. <p/><i>Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life</i> describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers. Eloquent and powerful, this book lets us see the ways one woman writer works to find her own voice while creating a love relationship based on feminist thinking. With courage and wisdom she reveals intimate details and provocative ideas, offering an illuminating vision of a writer's life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"I love this book. Each offering from Bell Hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." --<i>Maya Angelou</i> <p/>"Wounds of Passion . . . is a carefully rered portrait of difficult love." --<i>Time Out New York</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>bell hooks</b> (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952-2021) was a pioneering feminist whose writings revealed how the specific life experiences of Black women were marginalized by the idea that feminism represented all women equally. A professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women's studies, she taught at the University of Southern California, Yale, Oberlin College, City College of New York, and Kentucky's Berea College, which established the bell hooks Institute for her work. <p/>The author of more than thirty books of literary criticism, children's fiction, poetry, and autobiography, including <i>Killing Rage: Ending Racism</i>, <i>Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood</i>, <i>Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life</i>, and <i>Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work</i>, hooks was nominated for the NAACP Image Award, won an American Book Award, and was named one of <i>Time</i>'s 100 Women of the Year in 2020.</p>
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