Title: Wounds of passion
Subtitle: a writing life
First published: March 1, 1998
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.
Subjects: Afro-American women, African American authors, Afro-American women authors, Race relations, Afro-American authors, Afro-Americans, African American women, Feminists, African Americans, Biography, African americans, biography, Women authors, Mujeres afro americanas, Mujeres como autoras, Afro americanos, Biografía, Feministas, Autobiographie, African American women authors, Autobiografie, Southern states, biography, Childhood and youth
Places: United States, Estados Unidos
People: Bell Hooks
Time periods: 20th century