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Article: LOVE'S SCHOLAR FEMINIST THEORIST BELL HOOKS OFFERS A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD SUBJECT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2000
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NEW YORK - The subject is love, and bell hooks is trying to
explain why she, a feminist theorist who found fame writing
provocative prose about sexism, racism, and other forms of
domination, would devote a book to it.
Initially, her answers are hesitant, her focus on the consumption
of a raisin bagel and tea in a rustic cafe a few blocks from her West
Village apartment. Then, as the bread disappears and she relaxes, her
tongue loosens. She embarks on thoughtful soliloquies about the
subject that are punctuated by the hiss of an espresso machine and
the murmur of the thickening crowd.
Hooks first summons up the words of 20-something author Elizabeth
Wurtzel, who wrote, "My generation is ...