Remembering bell hooks: 2025 Women's History Month

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Remembering bell hooks: 2025 Women's History Month

Women's History Month March 2025 Flyer

Image based portrait of bell hooks painted by Will Kasso, as the final portrait from a residency at Middlebury College, 2017. Yellow frame added by the Commons Library. Noncommercial use for this bibliography.

A Random Purposeful Annotated Bibliography of Women's History,
Buddhism (maybe), Chicana Feminists, Witches, and bell hooks. March 2025.

Race-Ing Justice, en-gendering Power
Toni Morrison

Call Number: GENERAL ; KF 8745 T48 R33 1992

ISBN: 0679741453

Publication Date: 1992-10-06

It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country but the world over, they cast a long shadow on essential issues that define America. In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians--Black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history. With contributions by: Homi K. Bhabha, Margaret A. Burnham, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Paula Giddings, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Wahneema Lubiano, Manning Marable, Nellie Y. McKay, Toni Morrison, Nell Irvin Painter, Gayle Pemberton, Andrew Ross, Christine Stansell, Carol M. Swain, Michael

Remembered Rapture
bell hooks

Call Number: GENERAL ; PE 64 H66 A3 1999

ISBN: 0805059091

Publication Date: 1999-01-11

Drawing on her experiences as a professor of English and the author of sixteen highly acclaimed books, critic bell hooks presents an insightful collection of essays on the process and politics of writing. Centrally, many of the essays raise provocative questions about the feminist movement and women's writing--the kinds of voices women have established in the wake of the demand for more writing by women, the politics of confession and the type of standards being set for women writers by critics. Several essays explore hooks's personal relationship to publishing, explaining the impact success has had on her work as she highlights her movement from writing in relative isolation to writing in New York City amidst the publishing industry, in a world full of writers. Other essays focus on the dearth of nonfiction writing by Black women, contrasting that with the rise in their published fiction. More general essays focus on writing as healing, raising issues about the function of writing; the extent to which readers inspire writers; and how race, ger, and class can determine one's relationship to words.

Teaching critical thinking : practical wisdom
bell hooks

Ebscohost Ebooks

ISBN: 9786612315251

Publication Date: 2010

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previous best-selling volumes in her Teaching series, Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community.

Feminism Is for Everybody
bell hooks

Call Number: NEW BOOKS ; HQ 1190 H67 2000

ISBN: 9780745317335

Publication Date: 2000-12-20

'Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.' So begins Feminism is for Everybody, a short, accessible introduction to feminist theory by one of its most influential practitioners. Designed to be read by all genders, this book provides both a primer to the question 'what is feminism?' and an argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today.Beginning with a broad survey of feminism's most important themes and concerns, bell hooks demystifies contentious concepts and turns apparent ideology into common sense. Providing a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of contemporary feminism, she looks at a wide variety of topics including reproductive rights, sexual violence, race, class and work. hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist and homophobic culture and thereby to seek out a different future.

Article: An Appalachian Heritage Conversation with bell hooks & Fenton Johnson Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
bell hooks & Fenton Johnson

Online Article

Publication Date: 2018

When Appalachian Heritage hosted a conversation between bell hooks and Fenton Johnson in April, the two native Kentuckians spoke to a packed house filled with students, professors, community members, and even a couple who had driven in from Texas specially for the event. [...]I would say the marriages that I admire and respect the most are the marriages that fall into what the critic Phyllis Rose called “parallel lives,” where two people agree to be solitaries together. [...]I don’t think any other language has the word that we carry that has such richness and associations. [...]that essay ends with my writing and thinking of the Catholic Church, and thinking of the South, and I’ve come to understand that this is what they share: “an uncompromising demand that they be accepted on their terms.

Breaking Bread
bell. hooks; Cornel West

Online Ebscohost Ebooks

ISBN: 1315437074

Publication Date: 2016-11-10

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice. This 25th anniversary edition continues the dialogue with "In Solidarity," their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture and the contemporary Black experience.

a bell tolls for bell hooks (1952–2021)
Namulundah Florence

Online Proquest

Publication Date: 2022

"Only bell hooks can get away with saying, “Do as I say,” in promoting a lifestyle. The seeker of love admits, it was “a longing so intense it could not only be spoken but was deliberately searched for” (2001, xvii). The physical, psychological, and spiritual journey involved years of disengaging from “learned patterns of behavior that negated my capacity to give and receive love” (10). Self-reflection and acceptance helped hooks commit to life affirming and nurturing choices in her quest, often unsuccessful, for love and its transformative power."--from article

Where We Stand: Class Matters
bell hooks

Online Ebscohost Ebooks

ISBN: 1135956642

Publication Date: 2012-10-02

Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.

Teaching bell hooks in Technical and Professional Communication
Sano-Franchini, J. et al.

Online Article Proquest. In College English.

Publication Date: 2023, January

"This retrospective analysis discusses how three teachers of technical and professional communication (TPC) at three different postsecondary institutions in the United States bring the works of bell hooks into our TPC courses..."* the transgressive possibilities of educational environments, * feminism as a methodology for social justice-oriented user experience (UX) design, * the oppositional gaze as a frame for analyzing the politics of looking in visual rhetoric, and * white supremacist capitalist patriarchy as a way of understanding systems of domination in an effort to work toward social justice in TPC." - From Article

A Kentucky State of Mind: bell hooks' Feminist Geography of Subjectivity
Shawn McGuffey.

Online Article Proquest in Southeastern Geographer.

Publication Date: Fall 2023

"This research applied a feminist geographical framework to analyze the significance of Kentucky in bell hooks Black feminist theorization. Utilizing narrative inquiry and the constant comparative method to analyze her memoir, Bone Black, poetry collection, Appalachian Elegy, and a collection of essays called Belonging, the findings illuminate the conditions, interactions, and consequences of homemaking for the politics of location. These findings reveal the process of becoming a subject, suggest a feminist geographic approach as an alternative to more abstract understandings of margin and center, and provide a more nuanced understanding of the significance of movement and stillness in knowledge production. The article concludes by suggesting that Kentucky is central to hooks feminist visions and theories."--abstract

Teaching for Liberation: The Manifesto Assignment as anExample of bell hooks’ Engaged Pedagogy
Saarthe Tack

Call Number: Online Article Taylor & Francis

Publication Date: 2022

"Diversity and inclusion, decolonising the curriculum, andintersectionality have become buzzwords in higher education,with questions raised about what counts as knowledge andwhose knowledge counts in teaching contexts. Despite eﬀortsbeing made to democratise the curriculum through reading listsand lecture content, pedagogy itself remains largely unchanged.In this article, I provide a theoretical reﬂection on my experiencesof teaching an introductory gender studies unit at an Australianuniversity at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Thepandemic intensiﬁed existing inequities amongst students, notonly outside but also inside the classroom. It is against thisbackdrop that I swapped the initially set research essay in theunit for a manifesto writing assignment. In this article, I explorethe ways in which the manifesto assignment provided anopportunity to take seriously bell hooks’ vision of engagedpedagogy that views education as the practice of freedom anddiscuss the ways in which it came to represent an example offeminist praxis that assists in fostering a more inclusiveclassroom, grounded in feminism’s liberatory project." Abstract

"Even in a Place of Sorrow, Even in a Place of Joy": Intersections of Blackness and Southernness in the Works of bell hooks and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Emily Palermo

Online Article in Mississippi Quarterly

Publication Date: 2024, November

"bell hooks's Belonging: A Culture of Place (2009) and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers's The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois (2021) exist at the intersection of southernness and Blackness, mapping the ways that the south can be a site of trauma and profound identification for the Black southerners who call it home. Both texts articulate the intense emotional experience that stems from returning to the south and offer alternative models for considering Black southern affects. These models challenge the white emotional paradigm—particularly its preoccupation with nostalgia—that dominates conversations about southern feelings. Situating these two texts within the current discourse surrounding monuments and memorials, this article highlights a non-linear engagement with history that prioritizes the felt aftermaths of slavery and the Jim Crow era in southern Black communities. In centering the complex, and often contradictory, affects that define the Black southern experience, both Belonging and The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois articulate the felt forms through which Black southerners return to both the physical region and history of the south.-Abstract

All about Love
bell. hooks

Call Number: GENERAL ; BF 575 L8 H655 2000

ISBN: 0688168442

Publication Date: 1999-12-22

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

Feminist Theory
Bell. Hooks

Call Number: GENERAL ; HQ 1426 H675 1984

Publication Date: 1984-10-01

Argues that women's liberation has failed to become a mass movement because feminist theories have not accounted for the diversity of women.

Teaching to Transgress
bell. hooks

Call Number: GENERAL ; LC 196 H66 1994

Publication Date: 1994-09-12

"After reading Teaching to TransgressI am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo Freire In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal. bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom? Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself. "To educate is the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching anyone can learn." Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work."

We Real Cool
bell. hooks

Online Ebscohost Ebooks

Publication Date: 2004-08-02

"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse." In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first page. Her title--WeReal Cool; her subject--the way in which both white society and weak black leaders are failing black men and youth. Her subject is taboo: "this is a culture that does not love black males:" "they are not loved by white men, white women, black women, girls or boys. And especially, black men do not love themselves. How could they? How could they be expected to love, surrounded by so much envy, desire, and hate?"

bell hooks: a conversation with Laverne Cox
bell hooks

Online Video on YouTube: The New School
Publication Date: October 13, 2014

"In October 2014, hooks invited the Orange is the New Black Star to The New School, where she was a longtime scholar-in-residence, for a conversation about race, gender, and colonialism. In doing so, the two quietly broke ground, modeling how cisgender and transgender feminisms can — and should — coexist through collaboration, dialogue, and loving critique. Although the roughly 90-minute conversation is worth watching in its entirety, the sparks really began to fly about a half hour in, when hooks brought up the question of feminine gender performance." Them.us

Available Means
Joy Ritchie (Editor); Katharine Ronald (Editor)

Online Ebscohost Ebooks

Publication Date: 2001-07-12

"I say that even later someone will remember us."--Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BCSappho's prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho's writing remains only in fragments, partly due to the passage of time, but mostly as a result of systematic efforts to silence women's voices. Sappho's hopeful boast captures the mission of this anthology: to gather together women engaged in the art of persuasion--across differences of race, class, sexual orientation, historical and physical locations--in order to remember that the rhetorical tradition indeed includes them.Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians--from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century--a room of their own for the first time. Editors Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald do so in the feminist tradition of recovering a previously unarticulated canon of women's rhetoric. Women whose voices are central to such scholarship are included here, such as Aspasia (a contemporary of Plato's), Margery Kempe, Margaret Fuller, and Ida B. Wells. Added are influential works on what it means to write as a woman--by Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Nancy Mairs, Alice Walker, and Hélène Cixous. Public "manifestos" on the rights of women by Hortensia, Mary Astell, Maria Stewart, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Margaret Sanger, and Audre Lorde also join the discourse.But Available Means searches for rhetorical tradition in less obvious places, too. Letters, journals, speeches, newspaper columns, diaries, meditations, and a fable (Rachel Carson's introduction to Silent Spring) also find places in this room. Such unconventional documents challenge traditional notions of invention, arrangement, style, and delivery, and blur the boundaries between public and private discourse. Included, too, are writers whose voices have not been heard in any tradition. Ritchie and Ronald seek to "unsettle" as they expand the women's rhetorical canon.Arranged chronologically, Available Means is designed as a classroom text that will allow students to hear women speaking to each other across centuries, and to see how women have added new places from which arguments can be made. Each selection is accompanied by an extensive headnote, which sets the reading in context. The breadth of material will allow students to ask such questions as "How might we define women's rhetoric? How have women used and subverted traditional rhetoric?"A topical index at the end of the book provides teachers a guide through the rhetorical riches. Available Means will be an invaluable text for rhetoric courses of all levels, as well as for women's studies courses."

A Black Women's History of the United States
Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross

Call Number: GENERAL ; E 185.86 B475 2020

Publication Date: 2021-03-16

The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this "groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States" (Ibram X. Kendi)-the perfect companion to An Indigenous People's History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States. An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ years, showing how they are-and have always been-instrumental in shaping our country. In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women's unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African American women of today. A Black Women's History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women's lives in all their fraught complexities. Berry and Gross prioritize many voices- enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists, queer women, activists, and women who lived outside the law. The result is a starting point for exploring Black women's history and a testament to the beauty, richness, rhythm, tragedy, heartbreak, rage, and enduring love that abounds in the spirit of Black women in communities throughout the nation.

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Women in Pacific Northwest History
Karen J. Blair (Editor)

PACIFIC NW COLLECTION ; HQ 1438 A19 W65 1990

Publication Date: 1988-12-01

Part one: Woman suffrage ; Of women's rights and freedom: Abigail Scott Duniway / Ruth B. Moynihan ; May Arkwright Hutton: Suffragist and politician / Patricia V. Horner ; The fight for woman suffrage and the Oregon Press / Lauren Kessler -- Part two: Work ; The limits of sisterhood: The woman's building in Seattle, 1908-1921 / Karen J. Blair ; Bertha Knight Landes: The woman who was mayor / Doris H. Pieroth ; The job he left behind: Women in the shipyards during World War II / Karen B. Skold -- Part three: Race and ethnicity ; Black women in the Pacific Northwest: A survey and research prospectus / Susan H. Armitage and Deborah G. Wilbert ; Sexual equality on the Colville Indian reservation in traditional and contemporary contexts / Lillian A. Ackerman ; Scandinavian women in Seattle, 1888-1990: Domestication and Americanization / Janice L. Reiff -- Part four: The arts ; Blanche Payne: Scholar of costume history and university professor / Diana Ryesky ; Tsugiki, a grafting: A history of a Japanese pioneer woman in Washington state / Gail M. Nomurar -- Part five: New directions for research ; The challenge of women's history / Susan H. Armitage.

Women of the Republic
Linda K. Kerber

Call Number: GENERAL ; HQ 1418 K47 1980

Publication Date: 1980-12-01

Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice? When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuing health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not.

The Movement
Clara Bingham

Call Number: NEW BOOKS ; HQ 1421 B52 2024

Publication Date: 2024-07-30

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes--from former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution. For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be. This engaging history traces women's awakening, organizing, and agitating between the years of 1963 and 1973, when a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, to the underground abortion network the Janes, to Shirley Chisholm's presidential campaign and Billie Jean King's 1973 battle of the sexes, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person, bringing to life the emotions of this personal, cultural, and political revolution. Artists and politicians, athletes and lawyers, Black and white, The Movement brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first class citizens, and in the process, changed the fabric of American life.

Women in Culture and Politics
Judith Friedlander (Editor); Blanche Wiesen Cook (Editor); Alice Kessler-Harris (Editor); Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (Editor)

Call Number: GENERAL ; HQ 1208 S7713 1986
Publication Date: 1986-06-01

Independence and virtue in the lives of wage-earning women: the United States, 1870-1930 / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Between the devil and the deep blue sea: the marriage and labor markets in nineteenth-century England / Diana Gittins -- From poor law to jungle law: sexual relations and marital strategies (London, 1850-1870) / Francoise Ducrocq -- The 1920s: feminism, consumerism, and political backlash in the United States / Rayna Rapp and Ellen Ross -- Girkultur of Thoroughly rationalized female: a new woman in Weimar Germany? / Atina Grossmann -- The anti-Semite and the second sex: a cultural reading of Sartre and Beauvoir / Judith Friedlander -- Between rape and prostitution: survival strategies and chances of emancipation for Berlin women after World War II / Annemarie Troger -- Farewell to history / Marie-Jo Bonnet -- "Viragos" in male theory in nineteenth-century Germany / Gudrun Schwarz -- Feminism and literary criticism: reflections on the disciplinary approach / Marcelle Marini -- Female insubordination and the text / Catharine R. Stimpson -- And the last walls dissolved: on imagining a story of the survival of difference / Carole B. Tarantelli -- Women in the theatre of men: what price freedom? / Marie-Claire Pasquier -- Male space and women's bodies: the English Suffragette Movement / Martha Vicinus -- Family structure, occupational patterns, and support for women's suffrage / Elinor Lerner -- Catholic women and political affairs: the case of the Patriotic League of French Women / Anne-Marie Sohn -- Catholic constructions of feminity: three Dutch women's organization in search of a politics of the personal, 1912-1940

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Women's Ways of Knowing (10th Anniversary Edition)
Mary Field Belenky; Blythe McVicker Clinchy; Nancy Rule Goldberger; Jill Mattuck Tarule

Call Number: GENERAL ; HQ 1206 W88 1997

Publication Date: 1997-01-09

Despite the progress of the women’s movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why they feel this way. Updated with a new preface exploring how the authors’ collaboration and research developed, this tenth anniversary edition addresses many of the questions that the authors have been asked repeatedly in the years since Women’s Ways of Knowing was originally published.

Reflections on Antiracist Feminist Pedagogy and Organizing: This Bridge Called My Back, Forty Years Later
Soares, Kristie, et al.

Call Number: Online Article in Feminist Studies.

Publication Date: 2022

" I have found that this collection provides a model for feminist and antiracist activism for my students, just as it did for me and my godmother. This essay reflects on my experiences teach- ing This Bridge Called My Back in two particular courses, Latina/x Stud- ies and Women of Color & Activism. By engaging both with This Bridge Called My Back and with student reflections on this text, I suggest that the book offers three key analytics that have helped my students and me envision what antiracist feminist organizing might look like in the con- temporary era. These analytics are bridging, coalition, and home. These three frameworks have not only challenged us to consider how feminism and antiracism intersect, but they have also crucially prepared us for antiracist feminist organizing in this political moment."-The author

Why Learn from Chicanas? The Relevance of U.S. Third World Chicana Thinkers in Polish Feminist Research
Hołubowicz Aleksandra

Online Article in Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

Publication Date: 2022

American feminist theories have long energised Polish scholarly work, and many Polish academics have drawn on the research of renowned American writers such as Judith Butler. Polish translations of numerous American authors may well have increased readership, which would otherwise be confined to English-speaking intellectuals. Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, a left-leaning publishing house, offers a wide selection of crucial works by American feminists and sells those books at affordable prices, making certain texts by Butler, Carol Gilligan, and Katha Pollitt widely accessible. Most works published in Polish have been authored by white women with some attempts to be more racially inclusive (the works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and bell hooks, for example, can also be found in translation). Chicana writers, on the other hand, are not part of Krytyka Polityczna’s canon. This paper aims to address this oversight, arguing for the benefits of drawing on Chicanas’ research in the analysis of various social, political, and cultural phenomena in Poland. It also takes a close look at several relevant terms/concepts proposed by Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo, and Chela Sandoval, as well as the ways in which these could be applied in the Polish context.- abstract

This Bridge Called My Back
Moraga & Anzaldua

ISBN: 9781438488288

Publication Date: 2021-11-01

Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism. Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities-race, class, gender, and sexuality-systemic to women of color oppression and liberation." Reissued here, forty years after its inception, this anniversary edition contains a new preface by Moraga reflecting on Bridge's "living legacy" and the broader community of women of color activists, writers, and artists whose enduring contributions dovetail with its radical vision. Further features help set the volume's historical context, including an extended introduction by Moraga from the 2015 edition, a statement written by Gloria Anzaldúa in 1983, and visual art produced during the same period by Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, Yolanda López, and others, curated by their contemporary, artist Celia Herrera Rodríguez. Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism, one that can effectively adapt to and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of women of color in the United States and throughout the world.

The Witches
Stacy Schiff

DISPLAY SERVICE DESK ; KFM 2478.8 W5 S35 2015

Publication Date: 2016-09-20

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
Carol F. Karlsen

GENERAL ; BF 1576 K37 1998

Publication Date: 1998-04-17

Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with very strange Fits," fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events at Salem. More than three hundred years later, the question "Why?" still haunts us. Why were these and other women likely witches--vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession? Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society.

This is still in process. Rhonda the Librarian has about a zen other titles to add. I am struggling to find that perfect bell hooks, buddhism, and one self article.

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