Black feminist writer and poet bell hooks has passed away at the age of 69, her family says.
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Born Gloria Jean Watkins on Sept. 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Watkins published under the pseudonym"bell hooks" -- a name inspired by her great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks -- to keep focus on her work and ideas rather than on her identity,Watkins had been fighting an illness and died with family and friends at her side, the family said.
Watkins studied English at Stanford University and earned a Master's from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz after attending segregated schools before college.Her first book,"Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism," focuses on the impact of sexism on Black women. She wrote more than 40 books with the main emphasis on feminist theory and Black womanhood. Those books have been published in over 15 different languages.
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