Audiobooks by Bell Hooks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center: From Margin to Center

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual audiences frequently found the theory unsettling or provocative. Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in this audiobook remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement. This audio edition is deftly narrated by Bahni Turpin, an favorite amongst listeners. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2015 Bell Hooks (P)2023 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Bell Hooks (Author), Bahni Turpin (Narrator)

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All About Love: New Visions

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' 'Love Song to the Nation' trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

Bell Hooks (Author), January Lavoy (Narrator)

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[German] - Selbstliebe – Über Herkunft und Gerechtigkeit (ungekürzt)

What's Love Got to Do with It? – Warum Liebe(n) eine gesellschaftliche Notwendigkeit ist »Dieses Buch, das sich mit der aktuellen Bedeutung der Liebe im Leben der Schwarzen befasst und eine Vorlage für das Überleben und die Selbstbestimmung der Schwarzen bieten soll, führt uns kühn zum Kern der Sache. Uns selbst mit Liebe zu begegnen, unser Schwarzsein zu lieben, ermöglicht uns allen, zur wahren Bedeutung von Freiheit, Hoffnung und einem Leben voller Möglichkeiten zurückzufinden.« In »Selbstliebe« entwickelt bell hooks das Fundament für eine Gemeinschaft, in der Schwarze sowie alle anderen dem Schwarzsein voller Liebe begegnen. Welche Rolle spielt die Liebe für den politischen Widerstand? Wie konnte der Diskurs über Liebe im Zuge der Befreiungsbewegungen deren Wert für eine selbstbestimmte Schwarze Identität torpedieren? Wie kann die Entscheidung, zu lieben, wieder als Akt der Befreiung erfahrbar werden? Und wie können wir unsere Kultur der Lieblosigkeit überwinden? Ob es um das Erbe der Sklaverei, die Bedeutung von Ehe und Beziehung oder um den großen Einfluss der Kunst, Medien und Politik geht, bell hooks eröffnet uns einen klaren Blick auf das Machtgefüge, das bestimmt, wie wir uns selbst und andere lieben. »Wenn eine so wahrheitsliebende und umsichtige Autorin wie bell hooks ein Buch veröffentlicht, möchte ich draußen vor der Tür der Buchhandlung stehen, wenn sie öffnet.« Maya Angelou, Autorin des Bestsellers »Ich weiß, warum der gefangene Vogel singt«

Bell Hooks (Author), Luise Georgi (Narrator)

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[German] - Lieben lernen – Alles über Verbundenheit (ungekürzt)

»Frauen, die sich für die Liebe entscheiden, müssen klug, waghalsig und mutig sein.« Ein großartiges Plädoyer für die Macht der Liebe Liebe(n) geht uns alle an. Unsere Sehnsucht und Suche nach Liebe hören nie auf. Egal wie alt wir sind. Warum fällt es uns dennoch so schwer, den wahren Stellenwert der Liebe gesellschaftlich anzuerkennen? Weshalb verharren so viele Menschen in Beziehungen, die schon lange nicht mehr liebevoll sind? Wieso stoßen vor allem ältere Frauen mit ihrem Liebesbedürfnis an Grenzen? Wo kollidieren Geschlechterrollen mit Erwartungen? Was hat der Feminismus damit zu tun? Wie hat die feministische Bewegung unsere Vorstellung von Liebe beeinflusst und verändert? Und inwieweit stecken wir bei Liebesdingen alle in patriarchalen Denkmustern und Machtstrukturen fest? Mit souveräner Offenheit begegnet die renommierte Literaturwissenschaftlerin bell hooks diesen Fragen. Jenseits aller Dogmen und Schuldzuweisungen entwirft sie eine neue Kunst des Liebens; basierend auf Freiheit, Selbstliebe und echter Verbundenheit. »Meisterhaft. Für alle Frauen (und Männer), die sich Gedanken über die Liebe machen, ist dieses Buch ein Valentinstaggeschenk.« Los Angeles Times »Die Vision einer Welt, in der die Liebe zur Macht durch die Macht der Liebe ersetzt werden kann.« Time Out New York

Bell Hooks (Author), Luise Georgi (Narrator)

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Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue

In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as 'life, love, death, sex.' From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age, sexualities and genders, hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance, including feminism, home and homecoming, class, black masculinity, family, politics, relationships, and teaching. In their fluid and honest dialogue they push and pull each other as well as the listener, and the result is a book that speaks to the power of conversation as a place of critical pedagogy.

Bell Hooks, Stuart Hall (Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)

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Belonging: A Culture of Place

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks examines in Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which Hooks moves from place to place, only to end where she began-her old Kentucky home. Hooks has written provocatively about race, gender, and class; and in this book she turns her attention to focus on issues of land and land ownership. Reflecting on the fact that 90% of all black people lived in the agrarian South before mass migration to northern cities in the early 1900s, she writes about black farmers, about black folks who have been committed both in the past and in the present to local food production, to being organic, and to finding solace in nature. It would be impossible to contemplate these issues without thinking about the politics of race and class. Reflecting on the racism that continues to find expression in the world of real estate, she writes about segregation in housing and economic racialized zoning. In these critical essays, hooks finds surprising connections that link of the environment and sustainability to the politics of race and class that reach far beyond Kentucky.

Bell Hooks (Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)

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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black 2nd Edition

In childhood, Bell Hooks was taught that 'talking back' meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, Hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, making new life and new growth possible.

Bell Hooks (Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)

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Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change.' And intervene, challenge, and change is what hooks does best.

Bell Hooks (Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)

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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, 2nd Edition

For Bell Hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of Hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, Hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of Hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination.

Bell Hooks (Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)

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Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition continues the dialogue with 'In Solidarity,' their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture, and the contemporary Black experience.

Bell Hooks, Cornel West (Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)

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Enseñar a transgredir: La educación como práctica de la libertad

'La inagotable energía intelectual de bell hooks es sorprendente, radical y amorosa.'—Paulo Freire En Enseñar a transgredir, bell hooks, escritora, maestra e intelectual insurgente, escribe sobre un nuevo tipo de educación, la educación como práctica de la libertad. Enseñar a los estudiantes a 'transgredir' los límites raciales, sexuales y de clase para lograr el regalo de la libertad es, para hooks, el objetivo más importante del maestro. Por ello habla al corazón de la educación actual: ¿cómo podemos repensar las prácticas de enseñanza en la era del multiculturalismo? ¿Qué hacemos con los profesores que no quieren enseñar y los estudiantes que no quieren aprender? ¿Cómo debemos lidiar con el racismo y el sexismo en el aula? Lleno de pasión y política, Enseñar a transgredir combina un conocimiento práctico del aula con una profunda conexión con el mundo de las emociones y los sentimientos. Se trata de un libro inusual sobre profesores y estudiantes, que se atreve a plantear preguntas sobre el eros y la rabia, el dolor y la reconciliación, y el futuro de la enseñanza misma. 'Educar como práctica de la libertad —escribe bell hooks— es una forma de enseñar que cualquiera puede aprender'. 'Una de las mejores descripciones del propósito y la función de la educación y el educador jamás escritas.'—Feminist Bookstore News

Bell Hooks, Marta Malo (translator) (Author), Paloma Insa (Narrator)

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Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

In Homegrown, cultural critics Bell Hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, Hooks and Mesa-Bains invite listeners to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication. This new edition includes a new afterword, in which Mesa-Bains reflects on the changes, conflicts, and criticisms of the last decade.

Amalia Mesa-Bains, Bell Hooks (Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)

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