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Gloria Jean Watkins is better known by her nom de plume, bell hooks, which is deliberately lower-case (despite the fact that at least two Shelfari "librarians" have seen fit to correct hooks and deny the request to have her nom de plume catalogued correctly). In addition to allowing her to establish a separate voice from the person Gloria Watkins, hooks/Watson's use of a pseudonym is intended to honor both her grandmother (whose name she took) and her mother.
Although hooks is mainly known as a feminist thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race, class, education, and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She believes that these topics cannot be addressed separately, but must be understood as being interconnected in their maintenance of systems of oppression (e.g., she refers to "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" as an entity, rather than to its more traditionally separated and component parts of race, privilege, economy, and gender).
Although hooks is mainly known as a feminist thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race, class, education, and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She believes that these topics cannot be addressed separately, but must be understood as being interconnected in their maintenance of systems of oppression (e.g., she refers to "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" as an entity, rather than to its more traditionally separated and component parts of race, privilege, economy, and gender).
