Wounds of passion
Subtitle: a writing life
By: Bell Hooks
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780805041460
Subjects: Mujeres afro americanas; African American authors; Mujeres como autoras; Afro americanos; African American women; Feminists; Biografía; African Americans; Feministas; Biography; Autobiographie
Description: Wounds of Passion is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks critically reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on our lives. She explores the way her sexuality is influenced by her radical political consciousness. Resisting the notion that love and writing don't mix, she begins a fifteen-year relationship with a gifted poet and scholar, who inspires and encourages her.

Writing the acclaimed book Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism at the age of nineteen, she begins to emerge as a brilliant social critic and public intellectual. Wounds of Passion describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasure, and the danger. Eloquent and powerful, this book lets us see the ways one woman writer works to find her voice while creating a love relationship based on feminist thinking.

With courage and wisdom she reveals intimate details and provocative ideas, offering an illuminating vision of a writer's life.
Notes: Sequel to: Bone Black.