Reading bell hooks: A selection of readings that highlight her intellectual labour

Not one to shy away from the labour of writing, bell hooks published widely. Mapule Mohulatsi and Kebotlhale Motseothata select a few essential works.

• Sisterhood: Beyond Public and Private (interview with Tanya McKinnon)
• Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (with Cornel West).
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom and Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
• Keeping ‘A Hold on Life’: Reading Toni Morrison’s Fiction (bell hooks’s PhD)
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre
• Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery
• Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

• All About Love: New Visions
• Communion: The Female Search for Love
• The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
• Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
• Where We Stand: Class Matters
• Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics 
• Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
• Feminism Is For Everybody 
• Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism 
• Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place 
• Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, edited by George Yancy and Maria del Guadalupe Davidson