Ground-breaking feminist thinker bell hooks dies aged 69

Starting in the 1970s, hooks published dozens of books that helped shape popular and academic discourse

bell hooks. Picture: The bell hooks Institute

bell hooks, the ground-breaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics were intertwined made her among the most influential thinkers of her time, has died aged 69.

In a statement issued through William Morrow Publishers, hooks’ family announced that she died on Wednesday in Berea, Kentucky, home to the bell hooks centre at Berea College.