Ain't I a Woman

A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote *Ain't I a Woman* (published ten years later). It was her first book, and one of the first published by South End Press, an independent, np, collectively-organized publisher dedicated to advancing movements for radical social change.

First sentence: "In a retrospective examination of the black female slave experience, sexism looms as large as racism as an oppressive force in the lives of black women."

Year

1981

Language

English

Publisher

Pluto Press

Editions

15

Pages

216

ISBN

9780745313504

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